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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.
It was Latimer's desire, That he might shed his heart blood for Christ, and God looked with an eye of love upon the breathings of his heart, and he had it.
It was Latimer's desire, That he might shed his heart blood for Christ, and God lookt with an eye of love upon the breathings of his heart, and he had it.
The Israelites did but groan, and God looked upon their groans with an eye of love, he comes down, he makes his Arm bare, he tramples upon their proud Enemies, and by Miracles he saves them. O weak Christian! Is not this a singular comfort, that the Lord reflects with an eye of love upon your thoughts, upon your desires, upon your tears, and upon your groanings? &c. What though others slight you? what though others take no notice of you? yet the Lord casts an eye of love upon you.
The Israelites did but groan, and God lookt upon their groans with an eye of love, he comes downe, he makes his Arme bare, he tramples upon their proud Enemies, and by Miracles he saves them. O weak Christian! Is not this a singular comfort, that the Lord reflects with an eye of love upon your thoughts, upon your desires, upon your tears, and upon your groanings? &c. What though others slight you? what though others take no notice of you? yet the Lord casts an eye of love upon you.
Some think its very strange that God should set down in Scripture, the story of Jacob, a poor Country-man, Gen. 31. that he had a few Ewes and Lambs, streaked and spotted, and yet take no notice of the great Emperors and Kings of the Earth, nor of their great actions, and Warlike designs in the world. But this is to show that tender love and respect that God bears to his Children, above what he does to the great ones of this World. God is more taken with Lazarus patched Coat, then with Dives silken Robe, &c.