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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.
That is, He enriches all the faculties of their souls, he enriches their understandings with glorious light, their consciences with quickness, pureness, tenderness, and quietness; and their wills with holy intentions, and heavenly resolutions, and their affections of love, joy, fear, &c. with life, heat, and warmth, and with the beauty and glory of the most soul-enriching, soul-delighting, soul-ravishing, and soul-contenting objects, &c. All Saints experiences seal to this truth, and therefore a touch shall suffice, &c.
That is, He inriches all the faculties of their soules, he inriches their understandings with glorious light, their consciences with quicknesse, purenesse, tendernesse, and quietnesse; and their wills with holy intentions, and heavenly resolutions, and their affections of love, joy, feare, &c. with life, heat, and warmth, and with the beauty and glory of the most soulinriching, soule-delighting, soule-ravishing, and soule-contenting objects, &c. All Saints experiences seale to this truth, and therefore a touch shall suffice, &c.
Fifthly, Judge of the riches of Christ, by this, That notwithstanding ⟨p. 210⟩all the vast expense and charge that he is at, and hath been at for so many millions of thousands, and that for near six thousand years, yet he is never the poorer, his purse is never the emptier.
Fifthly, Judge of the riches of Christ, by this, That notwithstanding ⟨p. 210⟩all the vast expence and charge that he is at, and hath been at for so many millions of thousands, and that for neare six thousand yeares, yet he is never the poorer, his purse is never the emptier.