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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.
Prov. 24. 10. If thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. If thou shrinkest, if thou abatest and slackest in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Man hath no trial of his strength, till he be in trouble; faintness then discovers weakness. Afflictions try what sap we have, as hard weather tries what health we have. A weak Christian sinks under a little burden; every frown, every sour word, every ⟨p. 64⟩puff of wind blows him down, and makes him sink under his burden: But now a soul strong in grace, bears up bravely against all winds and weather. That's a brave Text (and worthy to be written in letters of gold) that you have in Gen. 49. 23, 24. Joseph's Bow abode in strength, though the Archers sorely grieved him, shot at him, and hated him. And the arms of his hands were made strong, by the mighty God of Jacob. The Archers that sorely grieved him, were his Barbarous Brethren that sold him; his Adulterous Mistress, that Harlot-like hunted for his precious life; his injurious Master, that without any desert of his, imprisoned him; the tumultuating Egyptians, that were pined with hunger, perhaps spake of stoning him; and the envious Courtiers, and Enchanters, spake evilly of him before Pharaoh, to bring him out of favour. All these shot sorely at him. The word that is rendered Archers, in the Hebrew is Arrow-masters, which term implieth 1cunning and skilfulness in shooting. They were cunning and skilful to hit the mark, and they shot at him, as at a mark. But yet his Bow abode in strength. When God in the midst of weakness makes a soul strong, that soul will not only face enemies and difficulties, but triumph over them. Those that are strong in grace, seldom want courage or counsel, when they are at the worst: They always find their hope to be an Anchor at Sea, and their faith a Shield upon Land: and therefore they triumph in all storms and dangers: They stand firm when they are under the greatest pressures, 2 Cor. 11. 23. I, labours more abundant, In stripes above measure, 2