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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.
It was a sweet Observation of Luther, That for the most part when God set him upon any special service for the good of the Church, he was brought low by some fit of sickness, or other. Surely as the lower the ebb, the higher the tide: So the lower any descend in Humility, the higher they shall ascend in honour and glory. The lower this foundation of Humility is laid, the higher shall the roof of honour be over-laid. If you would turn spiritual purchasers of honour, or of whatsoever else is good, no way like this of Humility. We live in times wherein men labour to purchase honour; some by their money; others by their friends; others by making themselves slaves to the l•sts of men; others by being prodigal of their blood, and many by giving themselves up to all manner of baseness and wickedness, whereby their carnal ends may be attained, and themselves exalted, but these men, and their honour will quickly be laid in the dust. Oh! but the readiest, the ⟨p. 40⟩surest, the safest, the sweetest way to attain to true honour, 1is to be humble, to lye low: Humility makes a man precious in the eye of God. He that is little in his own account, is great in Gods esteem.
It was a sweet Observation of Luther, That for the most part when God set him upon any speciall service for the good of the Church, he was brought low by some fit of sicknesse, or other. Surely as the lower the ebb, the higher the tide: So the lower any descend in Humility, the higher they shall ascend in honour and glory. The lower this foundation of Humility is laid, the higher shall the roofe of honour be over-laid. If you would turne spirituall purchasers of honour, or of whatsoever else is good, no way like this of Humility. We live in times wherein men labour to purchase honour; some by their money; others by their friends; others by making themselves slaves to the l•sts of men; others by being prodigall of their blood, and many by giving themselves up to all manner of basenesse and wickednesse, whereby their carnall ends may be attain'd, and themselves exalted, but these men, and their honour will quickly be laid in the dust. Oh! but the readiest, the ⟨p. 40⟩