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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.
THE Unsearchable Riches OF CHRIST.THE Ʋnsearchable Riches OF CHRIST.
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, Consider, Humility will free a man from perturbations and distempers.1
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When there are never such great storms without, humility will cause a calm within. There are a great many storms abroad, and there's nothing will put the soul into a quiet condition, but Humility. An humble soul saith, who am I, that I may not be despised? Who am I, that I may not be reproached, abused, slighted, neglected? That which will break a proud mans heart, will not so much as break an humble mans sleep. In the midst of a storm, an humble soul is still in a calm: When proud hearts are at their wits ends, stamping, swearing, and swaggering at God, and man, and providence, an humble soul is quiet, and still, like a ship in a Harbour. 2 Sam. 16. 6. to 13. Shimei comes railing and cursing of David, and calls him a bloody man, and a man of Belial, that is, a Renegade, one who being desperately wicked, had shaken off the yoke of Government, and would be under no Law: So the Hebrew word (Jagnal) signifies, men without yoke, or lawless: Therefore the Septuagint commonly Translate it (Paranomos) altogether irregular. It signifies most flagitious men, and notorious and desperately wicked, stigmatized Villains, even incarnate Devils; and yet David holds his peace, though provoked by his mighty men to revenge himself. Oh! how would this cursing and railing have madded and broken many a proud mans heart, and yet it stirs not David.
When there are never such great stormes without, humility will cause a calme within. There are a great many stormes abroad, and there's nothing will put the soule into a quiet condition, but Humility. An humble soule saith, who am I, that I may not be despised? Who am I, that I may not be reproached, abused, slighted, neglected? That which will break a proud mans heart, will not so much as break an humble mans sleep. In the midst of a storme, an humble soule is still in a calme: When proud hearts are at their wits ends, stamping, swearing, and swaggering at God, and man, and providence, an humble soule is quiet, and still, like a ship in a Harbour.