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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.
Twelfthly,
Weak Saints mind their wages and veils, more then their work.
Weake Saints minde their wages and vailes, more then their worke.
Their wages, their veils, is joy, peace, comfort, and assurance, &c. and their work is waiting on God, believing in 1God, walking with God, acting for God, &c. Now weak Saints minds are more carried out, and taken up about their wages, about their veils, then they are about their work, as experience doth abundantly evidence. Ah Christians! if you don't mind your wages more then your work, what means the bleating of the sheep, and the lowing of the Oxen? What means those earnest and vehement cryings out, and wrestings for joy, peace, comfort, and assurance? when the great work of believing, of waiting, and of walking with God, is so much neglected, and dis-regarded. But now strong Saints are more mindful of their work, then they are of their wages. Lord, saith a strong Saint, do but uphold me in a way of believing, in a way of working, in a way of holy walking, &c. and it shall be enough, though I should never have Assurance, comfort, peace, or joy, till my dying day. If thou wilt carry me forth so as thou mayest have honour, though I have no comfort; so thou mayest have glory, though I have no peace, I 2will bless thee. I know, says such a soul, though a life of comfort be most pleasing to me, yet a life of believing (abstracted from comfort) is most honourable to thee, and therefore I will be silent before thee. Lord do but help me in my work, and take thine own time to give me my wages; to give me comfort, joy, peace, assurance. They are none of the best Servants, that mind their wages more then their work: Nor they are none of the best Christians, that mind their comforts, and their incomes, more then that homage and duty that they owe to God.