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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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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.
Again, Will not Satan labour might and main to keep your graces low and poor? You never hurt him less, you never honour Christ less, you never mind your work less, then when grace is weak and low: This he knows, and ⟨p. 253⟩therefore labours to keep your graces down▪
Againe, Will not Satan labour might and maine to keep your graces low and poore? You never hurt him lesse, you never honour Christ lesse, you never mind your work lesse, then when grace is weak and low: This he knowes, and ⟨p. 253⟩therefore labours to keepe your graces downe▪
Again, Are not you liable to several changes in this world? As to be rich and poor, exalted and abased, now to relieve, and anon to be relieved; now well, and anon sick; 1now strong, and anon weak; now in storms, and anon in calms; now tempted, and anon delivered; now in one condition, and anon in another condition; now up, now down; now forward, now backward, &c. Now pray tell me, doth not the several cha•ges and variety of providences that we meet with in this world, bespeak us to be rich (not in some) but in every grace? Don't a state of prosperity bespeak a man to be rich in wisdom, rich in humility, rich in love, and rich in compassion? that his heart may be kept close to God in that state, and that he may do nothing unworthy of God, who ha's done so much for him: And now when God shall change the manner of his administrations towards such a man, when God shall put out his Candle, pull off his Robes, and clothe him with rags, and set him, with Job, upon the dunghill, don't this condition bespeak much patience, much contentation, much self-denial, much faith? how else will this man bravely bear up, when God shall write such bitter things against him, and pass the sentence of death upon his nearest, and his dearest comforts? If a man be not rich in one grace, as well as in another, when God shall bring changes upon him, and pour him from vessel to vessel, his life will be a burden, a hell unto him, &c.