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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.
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, Deut. 29. 19. and in several other Scriptures. Such sinners make God a God of clouts, one that will not do as he says. Ahab after he was threatened with utter rooting out, begat fifty Sons, as it were to cross God, and to try it out with him. Let God thunder 2in his judgements, yet he will add sin to sin, he will proceed from evil to evil, till he comes to the very top of evil, viz. to be hardened in sin, and to scoff at holiness, &c.
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