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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.
A third Ground is
To take away all excuse from ungodly and wicked men, and that they may be found speechless in the day of vengeance, when the Lord shall come to reckon with them.
To take away all excuse from ungodly and wicked men, and that they may be found speechlesse in the day of vengeance, when the Lord shall come to reckon with them.
Ah sinners! How will you that have turned your backs upon Christ, who is thus rich, be able to answer it in the day when God shall reason the case with you? When God shall say, sinners, Ha's it not been often told you that Christ is rich in mercy, and rich in goodness, and rich in grace, rich in pardons, rich in loves, and rich in glory, rich in spirituals, rich in temporals, and rich in eternals, and yet you have slighted this Christ, you have turned your backs upon this Christ, you have preferred your lusts and the world, and the ⟨p. 215⟩service of the Devil, above this Christ. Oh! How dumb, how speechless will sinners be, when the Lord shall thus plead with them? Oh how will their countenances be changed, their thoughts troubled, their joints loosed, their consciences enraged, and their souls terrified, when they shall see what a rich Match they have refused, and thereupon how justly they are for ever accursed, &c.
Ah sinners! How will you that have turn'd your backs upon Christ, who is thus rich, be able to answer it in the day when God shall reason the case with you? When God shall say, sinners, Ha's it not been often told you that Christ is rich in mercy, and rich in goodnesse, and rich in grace, rich in pardons, rich in loves, and rich in glory, rich in spiritualls, rich in temporalls, and rich in eternalls, and yet you have slighted this Christ, you have turned your backs upon this Christ, you have preferred your lusts and the world, and the