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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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Again, Sometimes it ariseth from the souls too frequent casting up of its Accounts. If a man should cast up his Accounts once a week, or once a month, he may not be able to discern that he doth grow rich, and yet he may grow rich; but let him but compare one year with another, and he shall clearly see that he doth grow rich. Though most are to blame for neglecting the casting up of their accounts, yet some are to blame for casting up their accounts too often; for by this means they are not able to perceive their spiritual growth, and so can neither be so thankful, nor so cheerful as otherwise they might. Let there be some considerable time between your casting up of your Accounts, and you will ⟨p. 252⟩find that your souls are grown rich, though for the present you perceive it not.
Againe, Sometimes it ariseth from the soules too frequent casting up of its Accounts. If a man should cast up his Accounts once a week, or once a moneth, he may not be able to discerne that he doth grow rich, and yet he may grow rich; but let him but compare one year with another, and he shall clearly see that he doth grow rich. Though most are to blame for neglecting the casting up of their accounts, yet some are to blame for casting up their accounts too often; for by this means they are not able to perceive their spirituall growth, and so can neither be so thankfull, nor so cheerfull as otherwise they might. Let there be some considerable time between your casting up of your Accounts, and you will ⟨p. 252⟩find that your soules are growne rich, though for the present you perceive it not.
But then again, Sometimes it ariseth from the souls mistake in casting up of its accounts. The soul many times mistakes, 'tis in a hurry, and there the soul puts down ten for a hundred, and a hundred for a thousand; as sometimes men in hurrying over their Books, they slip and make mistakes, and so they think there's nothing got, whereas indeed there's much got, and in the close they shall find it so. Many a gracious soul many times, takes a great deal of grae for a little, and a little grace, for no grace. Look as Hypocrites put down their Counters for gold, their pence for pounds, and always prize themselves above the Market: So sincere souls do often put down their pounds for pence, their thousands for hundreds, and still prize themselves below the Market, &c.