The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

Name: The Unsearchable Riches of Christ
Author: Thomas Brooks

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.

Thomas Brooks 1608–1680London: printed by Mary Simmons for John Hancock, 1655

[24], 328 p. · 131k words · Wing B4919

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THE Unsearchable Riches OF CHRIST.THE Ʋnsearchable Riches OF CHRIST.

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:431p. 89§2 Observ:

Your sins shall never provoke Christ, nor prevail with Christ ¹so far, as to give you a Bill of Divorce.

Your sins shall never provoke Christ, nor prevaile with Christ ¹so far, as to give you a Bill of Divorce.

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:432p. 89§2 Observ:

O there is much in it (if the Lord would set it home upon your hearts) your sins shall never prevail so far with Christ, nor never so far provoke him, as to work him to give you a ¹Bill of Divorce. Your sins may provoke Christ to frown upon you; they may provoke Christ to chide with you; they may provoke him gently to correct you; but they shall never provoke Christ to give you a Bill of Divorce. Psal. 89. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. If his Children forsake my Law, and walk not in my Judgements: If they break my Statutes, and keep not my Commandments: Then will I visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. That's a great Support to a weak Saint, That his sin shall never separate him from God, nor Christ. Thou art many times afraid that this deadness, this dullness, this earthliness, and these wandering thoughts, &c. that do attend thee, will provoke the Lord Jesus to sue out a Bill of Divorce against thee: But remember this, Thy sins shall never so far prevail with Christ, as to work him to give thee a Bill of Divorce. Mark,

O there is much in it (if the Lord would set it home upon your hearts) your sins shall never prevaile so far with Christ, nor never so far provoke him, as to work him to give you a

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