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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.
Fourthly, Living up to your light is the readiest and the only way to fetch up and to recover all that hath been lost by your living below your light.
Fourthly, Living up to your light is the readiest and the onely way to fetch up and to recover all that hath been lost by your living below your light.
By your living below your light, God, your own souls, and the Gospel, have lost much, yea, and others also have lost much light, comfort, strength, and quickness, &c. that they ⟨p. 108⟩might have had, had you but lived up to that little grace you 1had. Now there is no way on earth to recover, and to fetch up these losses, but by living up to that grace you have. Ah Christians! 'tis not your running from Sermon to Sermon, (not that I speak against frequent hearing of the word) nor your crying up this man, and that man; or this notion, or that; or this way, or that, that will recover and fetch up the honour that God hath lost by your living below your graces; 'tis only your living up to your graces, that will make up all the breaches that have been made upon his honour, and the Gospel, and upon the comfort and peace of your own souls, and others. Well, remember this, all the honour that God hath from you in this life, is from your living up to that light, knowledge, love, fear, and faith, that he ha's given you: There's nothing that will make up all losses, but this; therefore I beg of you upon the knees of my soul, that you would take this one thing home with you, and go into your Closets, and lay your hands upon your hearts, and say, Well, the Lord hath lost much, and my own soul hath lost much, and others have lost much by my living below that little Grace I have; and therefore I will now make it my business (by assisting Grace) to live up to those measures of Grace that I have received, more then yet I have done all my days. I will by the strength of Christ make it more my duty, and my work to live out what God ha's given in, then ever yet I have done, that so the Lord and the Gospel may be no further losers, but gainers by me.