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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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Improve that knowledge, that faith, that light, that love that you have. Those that had two Talents, did by the improvement of them, gain other two; and those that had five, did by the improvement of them, gain ten. Prov. 10. 4. The diligent hand maketh rich. Take hold of all opportunities ⟨p. 244⟩to enrich your souls with spiritual riches. Men will 1easily, readily, greedily, and unweariedly close with all opportunities, wherein they may get earthly riches, and why should not you be as diligent in taking hold of all opportunities to enrich your precious souls? Is not the soul more then raiment, more then friends, more then relations, more then life, yea, more then all? And why then do you not labour to enrich your souls? Thou wert better have a rich soul under a thread-bare Coat, then a thread-bare soul under a silk or golden Coat. If he be a Monster among men, that makes liberal provision for his Servant, his slave, and starves his wife, what a Monster is he that makes much provision for his baser part, but none for his noble part? A slothful heart in the things of God, is a heavy judgement. Prov. 4. 31. I went by the field of the slothful, and by the Vineyard of the man void of understanding, (Or as the Hebrew hath it, The man that had no heart, that is, to make use of his Vineyard) and lo it was all grown over with thorns and nettles, &c. O the lusts, the wickednesses that will overgrow slothful, sluggish souls! Spiritual sluggards are subject to the saddest strokes: Oh the deadly sins, the deadly temptations, the deadly judgements that spiritual sluggards will unavoidably fall under! None such an enemy to himself, none such a friend to Satan, as the spiritual sluggard. 'Tis sad to think how the riches of Christ, the riches of Consolation, the riches of Justification, the riches of Glorification are brought to many mens doors, and yet they have no hearts to embrace them; no judgement to this. Wherefore is there a price in the 2hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it? Well, spiritual sluggards, remember this, When your consciences are awakened, this will be a sword in your souls, that you might have been saved, you might have been spiritually and eternally enriched, but that you have trifled and fooled away golden opportunities, and your own salvation.