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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 › The Reasons why God gives his b•st Gifts to his Dearest ones.
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There goes a Story among Scholars, Of Aesops deceiving Mercury, He having promised him one part of his Nuts, keeps all the meat to himself, and gives the other the shells. 1Ah Christians! God ha's given you the meat, but the world the shells; why then should you be troubled for want of the shells, when God ha's given you the kernel? &c.
There goes a Story among Scholars, Of Aesops deceiving Mercury, He having promised him one part of his Nuts, keepes all the meat to himselfe, and gives the other the shells. 1Ah Christians! God ha's given you the meat, but the world the shells; why then should you be troubled for want of the shells, when God ha's given you the kernell? &c.
- 1Cyprian in his Sermon, De lapsis, reporteth of divers, who forsaking the Lord, were given over to evil spirits, and died fearfully. A backslider may say▪ Opera & impensa pe•it. All my pains and charge is lost.Cyprian in his Sermon, De lapsis, reporteth of divers, who forsaking the Lord, were given over to evi•l spirits, and died fearfully. A backsl•der may say▪ Opera & impensa pe•it. All my paines and charge is lost.
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