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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.
The Greek word that is here Translated *well-doing, is a Participle of the Present Tense, and notes, the continual custom of well-doing. And indeed, nothing but a continual course of well-doing, will be able to stop the mouths of wicked persons. 'Tis not a fit of holiness, but a course, that can produce so great a Miracle, as to stop the mouths of wicked men. That ye might stop the mouths of ungodly men.
The Greek word that is here Translated *well-doing, is a Participle of the Present Tense, and notes, the continuall custome of well-doing. And indeed, nothing but a continuall course of well-doing, will be able to stop the mouths of wicked persons. 'Tis not a fit of holinesse, but a course, that can produce so great a Miracle, as to stop the mouths of wicked men. That ye might stop the mouths of ungodly men.
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The Greek is, That ye may muzzle, or halter up. There's 1no way in the world, to button, muzzle, or halter up the mouths of wicked men, but by the exercise of your graces in ways of well-doing. Oh this will cause you to be well thought of, and well spoken of; this is that that will make even wicked men to say, these are Christians indeed; these are they that have not only a name to live, but are alive; that have not only a form of godliness, but the power. A Christians exercise of faith in times of wants, and of patience, in times of affliction, and of courage in times of temptation, and of contentation in times of opposition, &c. does mightily silence and stop the mouths of the worst of men.