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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.
THE Unsearchable Riches OF CHRIST.THE Ʋnsearchable Riches OF CHRIST.
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.
Seventhly,
Among all Saints, the weakest Saints act most like carnal sinners.
Among all Saints, the weakest Saints act most like carnall sinners.
No Saint so like a sinner, as a weak Saint. 1 Cor. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And I Brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto Babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able; for are ye not yet carnal? for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? for while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollo, are ye not carnal? They were advanced but very little above the imperfections, and passions, and sins of mere men, of such which had nothing of the Spirit in them, &c. Do wicked men quarrel with their Teachers, as shallow trivial Teachers, when themselves are in fault, as being not capable of more Mysterious matter? So did these Babes here. Do wicked 1men impute their not profiting to the Minister, as he that having a thorn in his foot, complains of the roughness of the way, as the cause of his limping, when as it was the thorn, and not the roughness of the way, that hurt him. Or as she that being struck with a sudden blindness, bid open the window, when as it was not the want of light, but want of sight, that troubled her. So did these Babes in the Text, lay the fault of their non-proficiency, upon their Teachers, when the fault was wholly in themselves.