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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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Secondly, Else there is no just Ground for Christ to charge 1the guilt of sins upon them; as neglect of Prayer, Repentance, Mortification, nor the guilt of Carelessness, and Slothfulness, &c. which he doth, if they can act no further, nor no longer then the Holy-Ghost acts them, as at their first conversion, notwithstanding their union with Christ, and that spiritual principle of life that at first they received from Christ; Certainly if it be so, it will not stand with the unspotted Justice of God to charge the guilt of sins of omission upon Believing souls, if they have no power to act, but are as stocks and stones, &c. as some dream.
Secondly, Else there is no just Ground for Christ to charge 1the guilt of sins upon them; as neglect of Prayer, Repentance, Mortification, nor the guilt of Carelesnesse, and Sloathfullnesse, &c. which he doth, if they can act no further, nor no longer then the Holy-Ghost acts them, as at their first conversion, notwithstanding their union with Christ, and that spirituall principle of life that at first they received from Christ; Certainly if it be so, it will not stand with the unspotted Justice of God to charge the guilt of sins of omission upon Beleeving soules, if they have no power to act, but are as stocks and stones, &c. as some dreame.
- 1Omission of diet breeds diseases, so doth omission of duty, and makes work either for repentance, hell, or the physician of souls.Omission of diet breeds diseases, so doth omission of dutie, and makes worke either for repentance, hel, or the physitian of souls.
A third Ground is this; If there be not some power in Believers to do good, then we should not have as much benefit by the 1second Adam as we had by the first Adam. The first Adam if he had stood would have Communicated a power to all his sons and daughters to have done good, and being corrupted he doth communicate power to sin, as all his children find by sad and woeful experience; and shall not Christ much more communicate a power to us to do good in our measure? surely he doth, though few mind it, and fewer improve it as they should. If there be not such a power in believers, how have they gained more by the second Adam, then they lost by the first? and wherein lies the excellency of the second above the first? &c.