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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon › The Uses of this Point.Sermon › The Ʋses of this Point.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, Let no discouragements take you off from labouring §Directions.to be enriched with spiritual riches.
FIrst, Let no discouragements take you off from labouring §Directions.to be inriched with spirituall riches.
A soul that would be spiritually rich, must be Divinely resolved, that come what come can, he will hold on in the use of means that he may be rich with the riches of Christ. 1Joshua was resolute in this Point, Choose you whom you will serve, whether the Lord, or those other Gods that your fathers served, as for my part, I and my house will serve the Lord. Luke 13. 24. Strive to enter in at the straight Gate. The Greek 2word signifies, To strive with all your might, with all your strength, to strive even to an Agony, to strive as they did for the Garlands, in the Olympic Games. The word here used, seemeth to allude to their striving for the Garland, where they put out themselves to the utmost. So in John 6. 27. Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him hath God the father sealed.
A soule that would be spiritually rich, must be Divinely resolved, that come what come can, he will hold on in the use of means that he may be rich with the riches of Christ. 1Joshua was resolute in this Point, Choose you whom you will serve, whether the Lord, or those other Gods that your fathers served, as for my part, I and my house will serve the Lord.