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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.
And therefore upon every turn they are apt to judge themselves miserable, and to conclude that they have no grace, because they cannot feel it, nor discern it, nor believe it, and so making sense, feeling, and reason, the judge of their estates. They wrong, and perplex, and vex their precious souls, and make their lives a very Hell: As if it were not one thing to be the Lords, and another thing for a man to know that he is the Lords. As if it were not one thing for a man to have grace, and another thing to know that he hath grace.
And therefore upon every turne they are apt to judge themselves miserable, and to conclude that they have no grace, because they cannot feele it, nor discerne it, nor beleeve it, and so making sense, feeling, and reason, the judge of their estates. They wrong, and perplex, and vex their precious soules, and make their lives a very Hell: As if it were not one thing to be the Lords, and another thing for a man to know that he is the Lords. As if it were not one thing for a man to have grace, and another thing to know that he hath grace.
The Canaanite woman had strong faith, but no Assurance, 1that we read of. Gal. 4. 6. And because ye are Sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba father. Mark, they are first the Sons of God, and then the Spirit cries, Abba father. 1 John 5. 13. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have Eternal life. Mark, they did believe, and they had Eternal life, in respect of Christ their head, who as a public person was gone to Heaven, to represent all his Saints. And they had Eternal life in respect of the Promises. And they had Eternal life in respect of the beginnings of it; and yet they did not know it, they did not believe it. Therefore these things write I unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God (saith he) that ye may know that ye have Eternal life, and that this life is in his Son. Ponder on