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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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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⟩up the Grace of God that is in us, and to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling; and that also, Give all diligence to make your Calling and Election sure. To what purpose are all these precious exhortations, if the regenerate man have no power at all to act any thing that's good? Nay then, believers under the Covenant of Grace, should be in no better a Condition then unregenerate men that are under a Covenant of works, who see their duties discovered, but have no power to perform: which is contrary, as to other Scriptures, so to that, Psal. 40. 7, 8, 9. Then said I, lo, I come: in the volume of thy book it is written of me: I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea thy law is within my heart, or, thy law is in the midst of my Bowels, as the Hebrew reads it. And to that of Ezek. 36. 25, 26, 27. &c. A soul truly gracious can sincerely say, Thy law O Lord, is in the midst of my bowels, and I delight to do thy will O Lord, I confess I cannot do it as I should, nor I shall never do it as I would, till I come to heaven; but this I can say in mu•h uprightness, that, Thy law is in my heart, and I delight to do thy will, O father. And so Paul, With my mind I serve the Law of God, though with my 1flesh the Law of sin.
Fourthly, and lastly, All those exhortations are voyd and of none effect, if there be not some power in soules truly gratious to doe good, as all those exhortations to watchfullnesse, To stirre ⟨p. 184⟩up the Grace of God that is in us, and to worke out our owne salvation with feare and trembling; and that also, Give all diligence to make your Calling and Election sure. To what purpose are all these precious exhortations, if the regenerate man have no power at all to act any thing that's good? Nay then, beleevers under the Covenant of Grace, should be in no better a Condition then unregenerate men that are under a Covenant of workes, who see their duties discovered, but have no power to performe: which is contrary, as to other Scriptures, so to that,