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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.
When one deboist in life among the Lacedaemonians, stepped up, and gave good counsel, they would not receive it; but when another of a better life stepped up and gave the same counsel, 1they presently followed it. The application is easy. Every Ministers life should be a Commentary upon Christs life, nothing wins and builds like this.
When one deboist in life among the Lacedemonians, stept up, and gave good counsel, they would not receive it; but when another of a better life stept up and gave the same counsel, 1they presently followed it. The application is easie. Every Ministers life should be a Commentary upon Christs life, nothing wins and builds like this.
- 1Chrysostom Preached so feelingly▪ and so affectionately, that his hea•ers thought they had as good be without the Sun in the Firmament, as Chrysostom in the Pulpit.Chrysostome Preached so feeling•y▪ and so affectionatly, that his hea•ers thought they had as good be without the Sun in the Firmament, as Chrysostome in the Pulpit.
Eighthly, Ministers must preach Feelingly, experimentally, as well as exemplarily; they must speak from the heart, to the heart; they must feel the worth, the weight, the sweet of those things upon their own souls, that they give out to others. 1 John 1. 1, 2, 3. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have locked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life. (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness,