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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.
He that improves not his gifts and graces to this end, crosses the grand end of Gods bestowing such royal favours on him. Graces and gifts are Talents that God hath given you to trade with, and not to hide in a Napkin. The idle servant, 1in Christs account, was an evil servant: The idle soul, in Christs account, is an evil soul, and accordingly Christ will deal with him.
He that improves not his gifts and graces to this end, crosses the grand end of Gods bestowing such royall favours on him. Graces and gifts are Talents that God hath given you to trade with, and not to hide in a Napkin. The idle servant, 1in Christs account, was an evill servant: The idle soule, in Christs account, is an evill soule, and accordingly Christ will deale with him.
- 1Mat. 25.
Seneca calls sloth, The Nurse of beggary, the Mother of misery; and slothful Christians find it so. Christians, God ha's given you grace, that you should give him glory: His honour should be dearer to you, then your Jewels, then your Crowns, then your lives; I, then your very souls. Thou livest no longer, then thou livest to his praise.
Seneca calls sloath, The Nurse of beggery, the Mother of misery; and sloathfull Christians find it so. Christians, God ha's given you grace, that you should give him glory: His honour should be dearer to you, then your Jewels, then your Crownes, then your lives; I, then your very soules. Thou livest no longer, then thou livest to his praise.