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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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this you have in Isa. 42. 1. Hear him; this 1you have in Deut. 18. 15. All which may bespeak them to blush, who through curious wiseness disdain at the stately plainness of the Scripture; Oh how unlike to God are such Preachers that think to correct the Divine Wisdom and Eloquence, with their own infancy, vanity, novelty, and sophistry. Yea, Jesus Christ himself, the great Doctor of the Church, teaches this lesson, Mark 4. 33. And with many such Parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it. Not as he was able to have spoken; he could have expressed himself at a higher rate then all mortals can; he could have been in the Clouds; he knew how to knit such knots that they could never untie, but he would not; he delights to speak to his hearers shallow capacities. So in John 16. 12. I have many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now: He that speaks not to the hearers capacities, is as a Barbarian to them, and they to him.
this you have in Isa. 42. 1. Heare him; this 1you have in Deut. 18. 15. All which may bespeak them to blush, who through curious wisenesse disdaine at the stately plainnesse of the Scripture; Oh how unlike to God are such Preachers that think to correct the Divine Wisedome and Eloquence, with their owne infancy, vanity, novelty, and sophistry. Yea, Jesus Christ himselfe, the great Doctour of the Church, teaches this lesson, Mark 4. 33. And with many such Parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it. Not as he was able to have spoken; he could have exprest himselfe at a higher rate then all mortals can; he could have been in the Clouds; he knew how to knit such knots that they could never untye, but he would not; he delights to speak to his hearers shallow capacities. So in