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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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Sermon › That the Lord gives his best Gifts, to his best Beloved ones.
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It was an excellent saying of one of the Ancients, I had 1rather have St. Pauls Coat with his heavenly Graces, then the Purple of Kings, with their Kingdoms. Grace is that 2which truly ennobles the soul, it raises the soul up to converse with the highest and with the noblest objects; and every man is as the objects are, with which he converses; if the objects are noble, the man is so; if the objects are base with which a man converses, the man is base. A man may better know what he is by eying the objects with which his soul does mostly converse, then by observing his most glorious and pompous services. The righteous is more excellent then his neighbour. Abraham was a Prince of God among the Hittites. The Jews say, That those seventy persons that went down with Jacob into Egypt, were more 3worth then the seventy Nations of the world. Indeed, it's only grace that makes a man truly noble.
It was an excellent saying of one of the Ancients, I had 1rather have St. Pauls Coat with his heavenly Graces, then the Purple of Kings, with their Kingdomes. Grace is that 2which truly ennobles the soule, it raises the soule up to converse with the highest and with the noblest objects; and every man is as the objects are, with which he converses; if the objects are noble, the man is so; if the objects are base with which a man converses, the man is base. A man may better know what he is by eying the objects with which his soule does mostly converse, then by observing his most glorious and pompious services. The righteous is more excellent then his neighbour. Abraham was a Prince of God among the Hittites. The Jewes say, That those seventy persons that went downe with Jacob into Aegypt, were more 3worth then the seventy Nations of the world. Indeed, it's onely grace that makes a man truly noble.