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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.
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, Psal. 73. 6, 8, 9. comp. And such a one was Henry the Second, hearing that his City Mentz was taken, he used this proud blasphemous speech, I shall never love God any more, that suffered a City so dear to me, to be taken away from me. Such a proud wretch, both in words and actions, was Sennacherib, as you ⟨p. 51⟩may see in Isa. 27. from the 8 verse, to the 18.
Secondly, Sometimes Pride shewes it selfe in words. Dan. 4. 30. Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the Kingdome, 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, Wee have not so liv'd, 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, Psal. 73. 6, 8, 9. comp. And such a one was Henry the Second, hearing that his City Mentz was taken, he used this proud blasphemous speech, I shall never love God any more, that suffered a City so deare to me, to be taken away from me. Such a proud wretch, both in words and actions, was Senacherib, as you ⟨p. 51⟩