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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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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.
And the first is this, Seriously consider, that the exercise and improvement of grace in your souls, will be more and more the death and ruin of sin in your souls.
And the first is this, Seriously consider, that the exercise and improvement of grace in your soules, will be more and more the death and ruine of sin in your soules.
Take it from experience, There is not a choicer way then this, for a man to bring under the power of his sin, then to keep up the exercise of his grace. Sin and Grace are like two Buckets at a Well, when one is up, the other is down: They are like the two Laurels at Rome, when one flourishes, the other withers. Certainly the readiest, and the surest way to bring under the power of sin, is, to be much in the exercise of grace, Rom. 8. 10. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sin, but the spirit is life, because of righteousness. The life and activity of Christ and grace in the soul, is the death and destruction of sin in the soul: The more ⟨p. 193⟩grace acts in the soul, the more sin withers and dyes in the soul; the stronger the house of David grew, 2 Sam. 3. the weaker the house of Saul grew. As the house of David grew every day stronger and stronger, so the house of Saul every day grew weaker and weaker: So the activity of the new 1man, is the death of the old man. When Christ began to bestir himself in the Temple, the money-changers quickly fled out: So when grace is active and stirring in the soul, corruption quickly flies. A man may find out many ways to hide his sin, but he will never find out any way to subdue his sin, but by the exercise of grace. Of all Christians, none so mortified as those in whom grace is most exercised. Sin is a Viper that must be killed, or 'twill kill you for ever; and there is no way to kill it, but by the exercise of grace.