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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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Oh their graces, their comforts, their enlargements, their ⟨p. 71⟩meltings, and their warmings, &c. are the things that most take them: Their thoughts and hearts are so exercised and carried out about these, that the person of Christ is much neglected by them. The Child is so taken with Babies and Rattles, &c. that the Mother is not minded. And such is the carriage of weak Christians towards Christ. But now souls strong in grace, are more taken with the person of Christ, then they are with the Love-tokens of Christ. They bless Christ indeed 1for every dram of grace, and for every good word from heaven, and for every good look from heaven: I, but yet the person of Christ that's more to them, then all these. This is remarkable in the Church, Cant. 5. 9, 10. What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved, O thou fairest among women? &c. My Beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand, &c. She doth not say, My Beloved is one that I 2have got so many thousands by, and heaven by, and pardon of sin by, and peace of Conscience by. Oh no; but he is white and ruddy. Her soul was taken most with the person of Christ. Not but that every one is to mind the graces of Christ, and to be thankful for them: I, but 'tis an Argument of weakness of grace, when the heart is more exercised about the bracelets, and the kisses, and the Love-tokens of Christ, then it is about the person of Christ. But now saith one strong in grace, My 3bracelets are precious, but Christ is more precious; the streams of grace are sweet, but the fountain of grace is most sweet; the beams of the Sun are glorious, but the Sun it self is most glorious. A naked Christ, a despised Christ, a persecuted Christ, is more valued by a strong Christian, then Heaven and Earth is by a weak Christian.
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