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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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Origen coming to Jerusalem, after that he had shamefully turned his back upon Christ, and his truth, and being exceedingly pressed to preach, at last he yields, and as he opened the Book, he happened to cast his eye upon that place of the Psalmist, What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes, or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth, seeing thou hatest 1instruction, and castest my words behind thee. Now the remembrance of his own folly so reflected upon his conscience, that it made him close the Book, and sit down and weep. Such as forsake a rich, a full Christ, shall have weeping work enough.
Origen coming to Jerusalem, after that he had shamefully turned his back upon Christ, and his truth, and being exceedingly pressed to preach, at last he yields, and as he opened the Book, he happened to cast his eye upon that place of the Psalmist, What hast thou to doe to declare my Statutes, or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth, seeing thou hatest 1instruction, and castest my words behind thee. Now the remembrance of his owne folly so reflected upon his conscience, that it made him close the Book, and sit downe and weep. Such as forsake a rich, a full Christ, shall have weeping work enough.
That is a very dreadful Scripture, Jer. 17. 13. All you that forsake the Lord, shall come to be ashamed, and they that depart from him, shall be written in the dust. Can you read this Text, backsliding souls, and not tremble? &c.