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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.
Tenthly, If Grace be not exercised and improved, the soul 1may be easily surprised, conquered, and vanquished by a tempting Devil, and an enticing world: when the sword is in the scabbard, the traveller is easily surprised, and when the Guard is asleep, the City is quickly conquered. The strongest creature the Lyon, and the wisest creature the Serpent, if they be dormant, are as easily surprised as the weakest worms; so the strongest and wisest Saints, if their graces be asleep, if they be only in the habit, and not in exercise, they may be as easily surprised and vanquished as the weakest Christians in all the world, as you may see in David, Solomon, Sampson, Peter. Every enemy insults over him that hath lost the use of his weapons, &c.
Tenthly, If Grace be not exercised and improved, the soule 1may be easily surprised, conquered, and vanquished by a tempting Devill, and an intising world: when the sword is in the scabbard, the traveller is easily surprised, and when the Guard is asleepe, the Citie is quickly conquered. The strongest creature the Lyon, and the wisest creature the Serpent, if they be dormant, are as easily surprised as the weakest wormes; so the strongest and wisest Saints, if their graces be asleepe, if they be onely in the habit, and not in exercise, they may be as easily surprised and vanquished as the weakest Christians in all the world, as you may see in David, Solomon, Sampson, Peter. Every enemy insults over him that hath lost the use of his weapons, &c.
- 1Saints should be like a Seraphim beset all over with eyes and lights, as Bassarion said. T•e fearful Ha•e (they say) sleepeth with her eyes open; oh how watchful then should a Christian be?Saints should be like a Seraphim beset all over with eyes and lights, as Bassarion said. T•e fearefull Ha•e (they say) sleepeth with her eyes open; oh how watchfull then should a Christian be?