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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.
Or thus:
The Lord will not cast away weak Saints, by reason of the weaknesses that cleaves to their persons, or services.
The Lord will not cast away weake Saints, by reason of the weaknesses that cleaves to their persons, or services.
In 2 Chron. 30. 18, 19, 20. there came a multitude of people to eat the Passover, but they were not prepared according to the preparation of the Sanctuary; therefore Hezekiah puts up a Prayer for them, and the Text saith, That the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. ⟨p. 78⟩looked upon their uprightness, and so past over all their other weaknesses. He did not cast off Peter for his horrid sins, but rather looks upon him with an eye of love and pity. Mark 16. 7. But go your way, tell his Disciples and Peter, that he goeth before you into Galilee, there shall ye see him, as he said unto you. Oh admirable love! Oh matchless mercy! where sin abounds, grace do's super-abound. This is the glory of Christ, that he carries it sweetly towards his people, when they carry themselves unworthily towards him. Christ looks more upon Peters sorrow, then upon his sin; upon his tears, then upon his Oaths, &c. The Lord will not cast away weak Saints for their great unbelief, because there is a little faith in them. He will not throw them away for that hypocrisy that's in them, because of that (little) sincerity that's in them. He will not cast away weak Saints for that Pride that's in them, because of those Rays of humility that shine in them. He will not despise his people for their passions, because of those grains of meekness that are in them. We will not throw away a little gold because of a great deal of dross that cleaves to it; nor a little wheat, because mixed with much chaff; and will God? will God?