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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Sixthly, They are to Preach Christ Laboriously, painfully, frequently; a Minister must be like the Bee, that is still a flying from one Flower to another, to suck out Honey for the good of others. Should not that dreadful word make every idle Shepherd tremble, Jer. 48. 10. Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord negligently. 1 Cor. 15. ult. Be ye steadfast and unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Oh! the dreadful woes that are pronounced in Scripture against idle Shepherds, Jer. 23. 1. Ezek. 13. 3. Chap. 34. 2. Zech. 11. 17. Mat. 23. 13, 14, 15, 16, 23, 25, 27. The great Shepherd of our souls, the Lord Jesus, was still a feeding of his flock, and much in provoking others to the same ⟨p. 303⟩work. John 21. Feed my Lambs, feed my sheep. 2 Tim. 4. Preach the word in season, and out of season. Christ wept for souls, and bled for souls, and prayed for souls, and shall not Ministers sweat much for souls, and work much for the good of souls? Doubtless they will give up but a sad account to Christ, that make any thing serve to fill up the hour, that spend two or three hours at the end of a week to fit 1themselves for Sabaoth-Exercises. Idleness is hateful in any, but most abominable and intolerable in Ministers, and sooner or later none shall pay so dear for it, as such, witness the frequent woes that are denounced in Scripture against them. Where should a Soldier dye, but in the field? And where should a Minister dye, but in the Pulpit?