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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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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.
Secondly, Humane doctrines have no humbling power in 1them. They may a little tickle you, but they can never humble you; they cannot cast down Satan's strong holds, they cannot melt nor break the heart of a sinner; they cannot make him cry out with the Leper, Unclean, unclean.
Secondly, Humane doctrines have no humbling power in 1them. They may a little tickle you, but they can never humble you; they cannot cast downe Satans strong holds, they cannot melt nor break the heart of a sinner; they cannot make him cry out with the Leaper, Ʋnclean, unclean.
- 1These things had need be seriously minded in these days, wherein humane doctrines are so much exalted and admired.These things had need be seriously minded in these dayes, wherein •umane doctrines are so much exalted and admired.