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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.
Thirdly, Christians, remember this, All the causes of prizing persons and things, are eminently and only in Christ, which bespeaks you all to set a very, very high price upon the Lord Jesus
You prize some for their beauty, why, the Lord Jesus 1Christ is the fairest among the Children of men, Psal. 45. 1, 2. Cant. 5. 10. My Beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest, or, the Standard-bearer among ten thousand.. You prize others for their strength, why, the Lord Jesus Christ hath in him everlasting strength, Isa. 26. 4. Trust in the Lord for ever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength, he is the rock of Ages. You prize others for bearing their fathers 2Image, why the Lord Jesus bears the Image of his father. Heb. 1. 3. He is the brightness of his fathers glory, and the express Image of his person. You prize others for their wisdom and knowledge; such a one is a very wise man, you say, and therefore you prize him; and such a one is a very knowing man, and therefore you prize him; why, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Christ, Col. 2. 3. In whom (saith he, speaking of Christ) are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. The truth is, all those perfections and excellencies that are in all Angels and men, they all centre in Christ, they are all epitomized in Christ. All the Angels in heaven have but some of those perfections that be in Christ. All wisdom, and all power, and all goodness, and all mercy, and all love, &c. is in no glorified Creature, no not in all glorified creatures put together. But now in Christ all these perfections and excellencies meet, as all water meets in the sea, and as all light meets in the Sun. Others you prize for their usefulness, the more useful persons and things are, the more you prize and value them. The Lord Jesus Christ is of universal use to his people, why,