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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 cast Angels out of Heaven; and Adam out of Paradise; it hath lain the first corner-stone in Hell, and ushered in all the evils and miseries that be in the world. It hath threw down Abraham, the best Believer in the world; and Noah, the most Righteous man in the world; and Job, the Uprightest man in the world; and Moses, the Meekest man in the world; and Paul, the greatest Apostle in the world. Oh the Diseases, the crosses, the losses, the miseries, the deaths, the hells, that sin hath brought upon the world!
It cast Angels out of Heaven; and Adam out of Paradice; it hath layen the first corner-stone in Hell, and ushered in all the evils and miseries that be in the world. It hath threw downe Abraham, the best Believer in the world; and Noah, the most Righteous man in the world; and Job, the Uprightest man in the world; and Moses, the Meekest man in the world; and Paul, the greatest Apostle in the world. Oh the Diseases, the crosses, the losses, the miseries, the deaths, the hells, that sin hath brought upon the world!
Basil wept when he saw the Rose, because it brought to ⟨p. 46⟩to his mind the first sin from whence it had the prickles, which it had not while man continued in Innocency, as he thought. Oh when he saw the prickles, his soul wept: So when we see, hear, or read, of the blood, misery, wars, and ruins that sin ha's brought upon us, let us weep, and lye humble before the Lord.
Bazill wept when he saw the Rose, because it brought to ⟨p. 46⟩to his mind the first sin from whence it had the prickles, which it had not while man continued in Innocency, as he thought. Oh when he saw the prickles, his soule wept: So when we see, heare, or read, of the blood, misery, warres, and ruines that sin ha's brought upon us, ler us weep, and lye humble before the Lord.