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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.
Sixthly, By way of Motive, consider this, That wicked men do exercise and improve to the uttermost, all those principles of wickedness that be in them, against the ways of God, the honour of God, and the comforts of the Saints.
Sixthly, By way of Motive, consider this, That wicked men doe exercise and improve to the uttermost, all those principles of wickednesse that be in them, against the wayes of God, the honour of God, and the comforts of the Saints.
Now shall wicked men improve all their Principles to the uttermost against God, his truth, and Saints, &c. And shall not Saints improve their graces to the honour of God, the advancement of truth, and the joy and benefit one of another? You may see the activity of wicked mens spirits, in ⟨p. 199⟩Prov. 4. 16. They sleep not unless they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. Oh they cannot rest. The wicked are like the troubled Sea (as Isaiah speaks) when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up 1mire and dirt. So in 2 Pet. 2. 14. Having eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin, beguiling unstable souls. An heart they have, exercised with covetous practices cursed children; they break all Promises and Covenants with God and man, as Sampson did the new Ropes. So in Prov. 19. 19. A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment, for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again. The Hebrew word (Tosiph) signifies to add; says he, thou must add deliverance to deliverance, for he will still be a adding sin to sin: So the radix (Jasaph) is used,