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The Unsearchable Riches of Christ
Ton anexichniaston plouton [sic] tou Christou. The unsearchable riches of Christ. Or, Meat for strong men. Milk [for] babes. Held for th in twenty-two sermons from Ephesians 3.8. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Word at Margarets New-Fishstreet.Ton anexichniaston plouton [sic] tou Christou. The unsearchable riches of Christ. Or, Meat for strong men. Milke [for] babes. Held for th in twenty-two sermons from Ephesians 3.8. By Thomas Brookes, preacher of the Word at Margarets New-Fishstreet.
London: printed by Mary Simmons for John Hancock, 1655
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Sermon › The Uses of this Point.Sermon › The Ʋses of this Point.
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Weak Christians are very apt to three things.
To choose their mercies. To choose their crosses. And To choose their employments.
To choose their mercies. To choose their crosses. And To choose their imployments.
They are often unwilling that God himself should choose out their way or their work: But now souls that are rich in grace, they are at Gods beck and check, they are willing that God shall choose their work and their way, they are willing to be at his dispose, to be high or low, to serve, or to be served, to be something, or to be nothing, &c. Now I beseech you, Christians, that you would seriously and frequently remember this, That there is nothing in all the world that is such an honour to God, and a glory to the Gospel, as for Christians to live up to their Principles; nor nothing such a reproach to God, and his ways, as this, for men to live below their Principles, and to act contrary to their Principles. And you will never be able to live up to your Principles, nor to live out your Principles, except you grow rich in grace; therefore labour I say, labour as for life, to abound in Grace, &c.
They are often unwilling that God himselfe should choose out their way or their work: But now soules that are rich in grace, they are at Gods beck and check, they are willing that God shall choose their work and their way, they are willing to be at his dispose, to be high or low, to serve, or to be served, to be something, or to be nothing, &c. Now I beseech you, Christians, that you would seriously and frequently remember this, That there is nothing in all the world that is such an honour to God, and a glory to the Gospel, as for Christians to live up to their Principles; nor nothing such a reproach to God, and his wayes, as this, for men to live below their Principles, and to act contrary to their Principles. And you will never be able to live up to your Principles, nor to live out your Principles, except you grow rich in grace; therefore labour I say, labour as for life, to abound in Grace, &c.