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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.
That your persons stand not before God in your […] righteousness, 1but in the perfect, spotless, and matchless righteousness of the Lord Jesus.
That your persons stand not before God in your 〈…〉 righteousnesse, 1but in the perfect, spotlesse, and matchlesse righteousnesse of the Lord Jesus.
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Weak hearts are apt to sit down troubled and discouraged, when they look upon that body of sin that is in them, and those imperfections that attend their chiefest services, they ⟨p. 88⟩are ready to say, we shall one day perish by the strength of our lusts; or by the defects of our services. Oh but weak souls should remember this (to strengthen them against all discouragements) that their persons stand before God, clothed 1with the righteousness of their Saviour, and so God owns them, and looks upon them as persons wrapped up in his Royal Robe, Hence 'tis that he is called, Jer. 23. 6. Jehovah Tsidkenu, The Lord our Righteousness. And so in 1 Cor. 1. 30. he is of God made unto us Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption.
Weak hearts are apt to sit downe troubled and discouraged, when they look upon that body of sin that is in them, and those imperfections that attend their chiefest services, they