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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.
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.
And the first Proposition is this.
ALL that do grow rich in Grace, they grow rich gradually.
ALL that doe grow rich in Grace, they grow rich gradually.
The Sun ascends by degrees; Children, Plants, and Trees, they grow by degrees; so do Saints in spirituals. It's true, many men as to temporals, by the death of some friend, or this or that providence, grow rich on a sudden: But no soul that's rich in grace, but grows rich gradually. In Prov. 4. 18. But the path of the just is like the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. He proceeds from virtue to virtue, until at length he shines like the Sun in its strength. And so in Mal. 4. 2. Unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing under his wings; and you shall go forth and grow up as Calves of the stall. Hos. 14. 5, 1, 7. I will be as the dew unto Israel, he shall grow as the Lilly, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the Olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return, they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the Vine: The sent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. I shall but hint at this now, because I have spoken more fully to it already, &c.
The Sun ascends by degrees; Children, Plants, and Trees, they grow by degrees; so doe Saints in spiritualls. It's true, many men as to temporalls, by the death of some friend, or this or that providence, grow rich on a suddaine: But no soule that's rich in grace, but growes rich gradually. In