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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.
A fifth Proposition is this,
Pride cannot climb so high, but Justice will sit above her.
One asked a Philosopher, what God was a doing? he answered, That his whole work was to exalt the humble, and pull down the proud. It was Pride that turned Angels into Devils, ⟨p. 54⟩they would be above others in Heaven, and therefore God cast them down to Hell. Pride (saith Hugo) was borne in Heaven, but forgetting by what way she fell from thence, she could never find the way thither again. The first man would know as God, and the Babel builders would dwell as God, but Justice set above them all. This truth you see verified in the Justice of God upon Pharaoh, Haman, Herod, Belshazzar, and Nebuchadnezzar; all these would be very high, but Justice takes the right hand of them all, and brings them down to the dust. Yea Pride cannot climb so high in the hearts of the Saints, but Divine Justice will be above it. Uzziah his heart was lifted up, 2 Chron. 26. 27. but Justice smites him with a Leprosy, and so he died, out of grief and sorrow, saith Josephus. David glories in his own greatness, 2 Chron. 29. 32. and for this seventy-thousand fall by the hand of Justice. Hezekiah's heart was lifted up, but wrath was upon him, and upon all Judah and Jerusalem for it, 2 Chron. 29. 32, 33. Pride sets it self against the Honour, Being, and Sovereignty of God, therefore Justice will in spite of all, sit above her. Other sins strike at the word of God, the people of God, and the Creatures of God, but Pride strikes directly at the very Being of God, and therefore Justice will be above her.