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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.
Eighthly,
Souls weak in Grace, are easily drawn aside out of the ways of holiness.
Soules weake in Grace, are easily drawne aside out of the wayes of holinesse.
You know a man that hath but a little bodily strength, is easily thrust out of the way, so it is with souls weak in grace, 1 John 3. 7. Little Children, let no man deceive you; he that doth righteousness, is righteous, even as he is righteous. Saith the Apostle, Little Children, let no man deceive you. Many in these days (under pretences of high and glorious enjoyments of God) neglect and despise righteousness, and holiness, crying up Visions and manifestations, when their Visions are only the Visions of their own hearts, and their Manifestations are plain delusions. Ah but says the Apostle, Little Children, let none of these deceive you. I tell you he (and only he) that doth righteousness, is righteous, as God is righteous. Children you know may be easily cozened, and made to take Counters for gold, because they are broader, and brighter. Children in grace are soon deceived, hence is it that they are so cozened. Little Children, keep your 1selves from Idols. So in Heb. 12. 12, 13. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees. Some think that the Apostle Alludes to those Combats of the Heathens, wherein it was a token of yielding, when a man hung down his hands. You are weak, saith the Apostle, and by reason of Trials, you are apt to hang down your hands, and to give up all as lost, therefore (says he) lift up your hands to fight, and your feet to run, take heart and courage, faint not, give not over, turn not aside because of the sharpness of afflictions. But souls strong in grace, will hold on in the ways of grace and holiness, in the face of all dangers and deaths,