The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

Name: The Unsearchable Riches of Christ
Author: Thomas Brooks

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.

Thomas Brooks 1608–1680London: printed by Mary Simmons for John Hancock, 1655

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Sermon › That 'tis the great Duty of Preachers, to Preach Jesus Christ to th…: That 'tis the great Duty of Preachers, to Preach Jesus Christ to the people.

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:1292p. 292§Doctrine.

But to come to the Reasons of the Point, Why it is the great work and duty of Ministers to preach Jesus Christ to the people.

But to come to the Reasons of the Point, Why it is the great worke and duty of Ministers to preach Jesus Christ to the people.

:1293p. 292§Doctrine.

First, Because that this is the only way to save, and to win souls to Jesus Christ.

First, Because that this is the onely way to save, and to win soules to Jesus Christ.

:1294p. 292–293§Doctrine.

There is no other way of winning and saving souls, but by the Preaching of Christ to the people. In Acts 4. 10, 11, 12. compared, Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby ¹we must be saved. You may Preach this, and that, and a thousand things to the people, and yet never better them, never win them; 'tis only Preaching of Christ, that allures and draws souls to Christ. John 17. 3. This is life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. Ah! nothing melts the hearts of sinners, nor wins upon the hearts of sinners, like the Preaching of the Lord Jesus. 'Tis true, the teaching of this, and that opinion, may please many a mans fancy, but 'tis only the Preaching of Christ that changes the heart, that conquers the heart, that turns the heart, &c. Peter by Preaching of a crucified Christ,

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