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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.
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.
A third Ground is this; If there be not some power in Beleevers to doe 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 finde by sad and wofull experience; and shall not Christ much more communicate a power to us to doe good in our measure? surely he doth, though few minde it, and fewer improve it as they should. If there be not such a power in beleevers, how have they gain'd more by the second Adam, then they lost by the first? and wherein lyes the excellency of the second above the first? &c.
- 1Ipse unus erit tibi omnia, quia in ips• uno bono, bona sunt omnia. August.
Fourthly, and lastly, All those exhortations are void and of none effect, if there be not some power in souls truly gracious to do good, as all those exhortations to watchfulness, To stir ⟨p. 184⟩