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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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There's no other way for them to avoid the contracting of the blood of men and women's souls upon them, but the 1Preaching of Christ unto them. Now a man were better to have all the blood in the world upon him, then the blood of one soul. The blood of souls, of all blood, cries loudest, and wounds deepest: The lowest, the darkest, and the hottest ⟨p. 295⟩place in Hell will be the sad and dreadful portion of such upon whose skirts the blood of souls shall be found at last. Hence that passage of Paul, in 1 Cor. 9. 16. Woe unto me if I preach not the Gospel. The Motto that should be writ upon Preachers Study doors, and on their walls, and on all the Books they look on, on the beds they lye on, and on the seats they sit on, &c. should be this, The Blood of souls, The Blood of souls. The soul is the better, the noble part of man, it bears most of the Image of God, 'tis capable of union and communion with God. Christ sweat for it, and bled for it, and therefore woe to those Merchants that make merchandise of the souls of men. This was a comfort and an honour to Paul, that he kept himself from the blood of souls, Acts 20. 25, 26, 27. He appeals to them that they were witnesses that he was free from the blood of all men. Paul had held out Jesus Christ in his Natures, in his Names, in his Offices, and in all his excellencies and perfections, and so frees himself from the blood of all men. And Ministers can no way secure themselves from the blood of souls, but by Preaching up, and living out a crucified Jesus.
There's no other way for them to avoid the contracting of the blood of men and womens soules upon them, but the 1Preaching of Christ unto them. Now a man were better to have all the blood in the world upon him, then the blood of one soule. The blood of soules, of all blood, cryes loudest, and wounds deepest: The lowest, the darkest, and the hottest ⟨p. 295⟩