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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.
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Againe,
If the Lord Jesus Christ be so rich, Oh then, all you that have an interest in him, labour mightily to clear up §Ʋse 9.your interest, and to be more and more confident of your interest in so rich a Jesus.
My Brethren, 'tis one thing for a man to have an interest in Christ, and another thing to have his interest cleared up to him. I do speak it with grief of heart, That even among such Christians that I hope to meet in Heaven, there's scarce one of forty, nay, one of a hundred, that is groundedly able to make out his interest in the Lord Jesus. Most Christians live between fear and hope, between doubting, and believing: One day they hope that all is well, and that all shall be well for ever; the next day they are ready to say, That ⟨p. 280⟩they shall one day perish by the hand of such a corruption, or else by the hand of such or such a temptation: And thus they are up and down, saved and lost, many times in a day.
My Brethren, 'tis one thing for a man to have an interest in Christ, and another thing to have his interest cleer'd up to him. I doe speak it with grief of heart, That even among such Christians that I hope to meet in Heaven, there's scarce one of forty, nay, one of a hundred, that is groundedly able to make out his interest in the Lord Jesus. Most Christians live between feare and hope, between doubting, and believing: One day they hope that all is well, and that all shall be well for ever; the next day they are ready to say, That