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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.
The third and last Rule I shall lay down, is this, Such as would Preach Christ aright to the people, had need
The third and last Rule I shall lay downe, is this, Such as would Preach Christ aright to the people, had need
Dwell much upon the vanity of humane doctrines.
The vanity of which doctrines may be thus discovered.
First, They do not discover sin in its ugliness and filthiness, as the Scriptures do. They search but to the skin, they reach not to the heart; they do not do as the Master did in Jonah's ship, when they were in a storm.
First, They doe not discover sin in its uglinesse and filthinesse, as the Scriptures doe. They search but to the skin, they reach not to the heart; they doe not doe as the Master did in Jonah's ship, when they were in a storme.