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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 spoken largely to this already, and therefore shall content my self in giving you this hint. It stands you upon to inquire what variety of Objects you have to delight your souls in. But
I have spoken largely to this already, and therefore shall content my selfe in giving you this hint. It stands you upon to inquire what variety of Objects you have to delight your soules in. But
Secondly, Rich men can reach to those things that poor men cannot reach to.
Secondly, Rich men can reach to those things that poore men cannot reach to.
I would have such and such things, saith the poor man, as the rich man hath; I would fare as he fares, and wear as ⟨p. 266⟩he wares, and do as he does, but my stock will not reach it. So a soul that is spiritually rich can reach to those things that one that is poor in grace cannot reach unto. He can reach to those joys, to those comforts, and to those contents, to those heights of communion with God, and to those Visions and apprehensions of God, that a soul that is not rich in grace, cannot reach to. Oh! I would fain have that comfort, and that joy, and that peace, and that communion with God, and those Visions of God, that such and such souls have, saith a poor Christian, but I cannot, my stock will not reach to it. It's an Argument a man is grown higher, when he can reach higher then he could before, whether it be a beam, or a pin, &c. So it's an Argument that a soul is grown rich in grace, when he can reach beyond what formerly he could reach unto; when he can reach beyond his enlargements, beyond his incomes, beyond his comforts, to a Christ: When in duty, he can reach above duty; when in an Ordinance, he can reach to Christ, above the Ordinance; when under enlargements, he can reach above enlargements, to Jesus Christ. Oh but now a man that hath but a little grace, he can rarely reach above his duties, above Ordinances, above Enlargements, to Christ, he is very apt to sit down, and warm himself with the sparks of his own fire, and to feed upon