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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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I have read of one, that did not fear what he did, nor what he suffered, so he might get riches, For, saith he, men do not ask how good one is, or how gracious one is, but how ⟨p. 240⟩rich one is. Oh Sirs! the day is a coming, when God will ask how rich your souls are, how rich you are in faith, in wisdom, in knowledge, in fear, &c. and not how rich you are in money, or in Jewels, or in Land, or in Goods, but how rich are you in Grace? which should provoke your souls to strive in the face of all discouragements to be rich in Grace. What will not the Merchant do, and the Mariner do for these temporal riches? Oh the dangers, the hazards, the tempests, the storms, the deaths that they run through for earthly riches, which are never without their sting! And shall not Christians labour in the face of all oppositions, after spiritual riches?
I have read of one, that did not feare what he did, nor what he suffered, so he might get riches, For, saith he, men doe not aske how good one is, or how gracious one is, but how ⟨p. 240⟩rich one is. Oh Sirs! the day is a coming, when God will ask how rich your soules are, how rich you are in faith, in wisedome, in knowledge, in fear, &c. and not how rich you are in money, or in Jewels, or in Land, or in Goods, but how rich are you in Grace? which should provoke your soules to strive in the face of all discouragements to be rich in Grace. What will not the Merchant doe, and the Marriner doe for these temporall riches? Oh the dangers, the hazards, the tempests, the stormes, the deaths that they run through for earthly riches, which are never without their sting! And shall not Christians labour in the face of all oppositions, after spirituall riches?
It is reported of Nevessan the Lawyer, that he should say, He that will not venture his body, can never be valiant; and he that will not venture his soul, will never be rich. I am sure that man that will not venture, and venture hard in the face of all discouragements, to be spiritually rich, will never be rich, he may be good in the main, and may go to heaven in a storm; but he will never be rich in spirituals, that will not venture himself to the uttermost for the gain of spiritual riches.