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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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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.
It is recorded, that Epaminondas the Commander in chief of the Thebans, That he did not glory in any thing but this, that his father, whom he dearly loved and honoured, was living, when he won three famous Battles against the Lacedaemonians, 1that were then held for their valour, to be invincible, regarding more the honour and content his father should receive of it, then his own. Shall a Heathen thus strive to honour his earthly father? And shall not Christians strive more to honour their heavenly father, with all the gifts and graces that he ha's conferred upon them?
It is recorded, that Epaminondes the Commander in chief of the Thebanes, That he did not glory in any thing but this, that his father, whom he dearly loved and honoured, was living, when he won three famous Battells against the Lacedemonians, 1that were then held for their valour, to be invincible, regarding more the honour and content his father should receive of it, then his owne. Shall a Heathen thus strive to honour his earthly father? And shall not Christians strive more to honour their heavenly father, with all the gifts and graces that he ha's confer'd upon them?
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