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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.
First, Sometimes it shows it self in the looks. Prov. 6. 17. he tells you of seven things that the Lord hates, and one 1is, A proud look. The Hebrew word there, is, The haughty eye. The haughty eye God hates. Mens hearts usually show themselves in their eyes. Psal. 131. 1. Mine heart is not haughty, nor mine eye lofty. There be such who show pride in their very looks, but the Lord looks aloof at them, Psalm 138. 6.
First, Sometimes it shewes it selfe in the lookes. Prov. 6. 17. he tells you of seven things that the Lord hates, and one 1is, A proud look. The Hebrew word there, is, The haughty eye. The haughty eye God hates. Mens hearts usually shew themselves in their eyes. Psal. 131. 1. Mine heart is not haughty, nor mine eye lofty. There be such who shew pride in their very looks, but the Lord looks aloof at them, Psalme 138. 6.
- 1Profuto oculis animus inhabitat. Plin.
Secondly, Sometimes Pride shows it self in words. Dan. 4. 30. Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the Kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my Majesty? And in Chap. 3. 15. Who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands? It was a very proud saying of one (Coelum gratis non accipiam) I will not have Heaven, but at a rate. And of another, We have not so lived, and deserved of God, that the Enemy should vanquish us. These were the proud ones, that spake loftily, and that set their mouths against the Heavens, as the Psalmist speaks,