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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 Unsearchable Riches OF CHRIST.THE Ʋnsearchable Riches OF CHRIST.
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Saith one, I'll have this, & saith another, I'll have that, &c. Or as 'tis in the Greek, they disputed who was greatest; says one, I am greater then thou; no, says another, I am greatest. It is an 1Argument of a Childish disposition, to be taken more with Rattles and Baubles, then with Jewels and Pearls. That Christian hath little of the power of grace within him, whose heart is so strongly carried out to these vanities below. Men that are grown up to years of understanding, prefer one piece of gold above a thousand new Counters, A soul that is strong in grace, that is high in its spiritual enjoyments, prefers one good word from God, one good look from Christ, above all the glory of this world. Lord (saith he) lift thou up the 2light of thy countenance upon me. Warm my heart with the beams of thy love, and then a little of these things will suffice. You see Moses, and all those Worthies in the 11 of the Hebrews, (who were men strong in grace) how bravely they trample upon all things below God, they lav'd their Families, and their Countries (where they lived like Princes) to wander in a Wilderness, upon the bare Command of God. So Luther (a man strong in grace) when he had a Gown, and Money given him, by the Elector, he turned himself about, and said, I protest God shall not put me off with these poor low things. Souls that know (by experience) what the bosom of Christ is, what spiritual Communion is, what the glory of Heaven is, will not be put off, by God nor man, with ⟨p. 62⟩things that are mixed, mutable, and momentary. And to shame many professors in these days, I might bring in a Cloud of Witnesses, even from among the very Heathen, who never heard of a Crucified Christ, and yet were more Crucified to things below Christ, then many of them that pretend much to Christ: But I shall forbear, only desiring, that those that think and speak so scornfully and contemptuously of Heathens, may not at last be found worse then Heathens; yea, be judged and condemned by Heathens, in the great and terrible day of the Lord.
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