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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.
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.
To suit all their prayers and all their discourses to the capacity of the weak. Paul was good at this, To the weak I became as weak: Paul he was a man as strong in natural and acquired parts, as any living, and he knew how to word it, and to carry it in as lofty strains as any that breathed, yet who more plain in his Preaching, then Paul? It hath many a time made my heart sad, to think how those men will answer it in the day of Christ, that affect lofty strains, high notions, and cloudy expressions, that make the p•aine things of the Gospel dark, and obscure.
To sute all their prayers and all their discourses to the capacity of the weak. Paul was good at this, To the weake I became as weake: Paul he was a man as strong in naturall and acquired parts, as any living, and he knew how to word it, and to carry it in as lofty straines as any that breathed, yet who more plaine in his Preaching, then Paul? It hath many a time made my heart sad, to think how those men will answer it in the day of Christ, that affect lofty straines, high notions, and cloudy expressions, that make the p•aine things of the Gospel dark, and obscure.
Many Preachers in our days are like Heraclitus, who was called The Dark Doctor, they affect sublime notions, obscure expressions, uncouth phrases, making plain truths difficult, and easy truths hard. They darken counsel with words without knowledge, Job 38. 2. Studied expressions, and high notions in a Sermon, are like Asahel's Carcass in the way, that did only stop men, and make them gaze, but did no ways profit them, or better them. 'Tis better to present ⟨p. 132⟩truth in her native plainness, then to hang her ears with counterfeit Pearls.
Many Preachers in our dayes are like Heraclitus, who was called The Darke Doctour, they affect sublime notions, obscure expressions, uncouth phrases, making plaine truths difficult, and easie truths hard. They darken councel with words without knowledge,