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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.
Now he calls them Carnal, partly because the flesh was strong in them; and partly, because they followed and relished the things of the flesh; and partly, because they did in their actions resemble carnal men. Do carnal and wicked men cry up one good man, and cry down another? Do they lift up one, and abase another? So did they: Are wicked men full of envy, strife, and divisions? So were they. And these overflowings of the Gall and Spleen, come from a fullness of bad humours, from that abundance of carnality that was in them. But now souls strong in grace, are higher then carnal men, as Saul was higher then the people, by head and shoulders. Souls strong in grace have their feet where carnal ⟨p. 69⟩mens heads are. Prov. 15. 24. The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. Souls that are strong in grace, do act rather like Angels, then like carnal men; they do as much resemble the father of Spirits, as carnal men do the father of Lies.
Now he calls them Carnall, partly because the flesh was strong in them; and partly, because they followed and relished the things of the flesh; and partly, because they did in their actions resemble carnall men. Doe carnall and wicked men cry up one good man, and cry downe another? Doe they lift up one, and abase another? So did they: Are wicked men full of envy, strife, and divisions? So were they. And these overflowings of the Gall and Spleen, come from a fullnesse of bad humours, from that abundance of carnality that was in them. But now soules strong in grace, are higher then carnall men, as Saul was higher then the people, by head and shoulders. Soules strong in grace have their feet where carnall ⟨p. 69⟩mens heads are. Prov. 15. 24. The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. Soules that are strong in grace, doe act rather like Angels, then like carnall men; they doe as much resemble the father of Spirits, as carnall men doe the father of Lyes.