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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.
That weak Saints do usually over-fear troubles before they come: Yea, those future evils, that forty to one may never fall out.
That weak Saints doe usually over-feare troubles before they come: Yea, those future evills, that forty to one may never fall out.
The very empty thoughts, and conceit of trouble, is very terrible and perplexing to a weak Saint. When it was told 1the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim, his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the Trees of the wood are moved with the wind, Isa. 7. 2. Their heart quaked and quivered (as we say) like an Aspen leaf. It is an Elegant expression, showing (in their extremity) the baseness of their fears, arguing no courage or spirit at all in them. The very news and conceit of trouble or calamities, oh how doth it perplex and vex, and grieve, and overwhelm weak Christians! The very hearing of trouble at a distance, makes them to stagger, and reel, and ready to say, Will God now save? Will he now deliver? It puts them into those shaking fits, that they know not what to do with themselves, nor how to perform the service they owe to God, or man. Now tell me, can you call that a stout spirit, a strong spirit, 2that is daunted with the very report, and thoughts of Calamity? Or that does torment men with immoderate fear of a thousand things that happily shall never fall out; as fears of foreign Invasions, or fears of home-bred Confusions; fears of change of Religion, or being surprised with such or such Diseases; or being ruined in their outward estate, by such and such devises, or disadvantages; or by falling under the ⟨p. 63⟩frowns of such a great man; or under the anger and revenge of such and such a man; and a thousand such like things. Now this speaks out much weakness in grace: Souls strong in grace are carried up above these fears; yea, with the Leviathan (in Job) they can laugh at the shaking of the spear;