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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.
In the Island of St. Thomas (on the back side of Africa) in the midst of it is a hill, and over that a continual Cloud, wherewith the whole Island is watered. Such a cloud is Christ, to weak Saints. Though our hearts naturally are like the Isle of Patmos, which is so barren of any good, as that nothing will grow, but on Earth that is brought from other places: yet Christ will make them like a watered Garden, and like a 1Spring of water, whose waters fail not.
In the Island of St. Thomas (on the back side of Africa) in the midst of it is a hill, and over that a continuall Cloud, wherewith the whole Island is watered. Such a cloud is Christ, to weak Saints. Though our hearts naturally are like the Isle of Pathmos, which is so barren of any good, as that nothing will grow, but on Earth that is brought from other places: yet Christ will make them like a watered Garden, and like a 1Spring of water, whose waters faile not.
The eighth Support, is this.1
- 18 Support. A dying sai• once cried out, He is come, he is come (meaning the Lord) with a great reward, for a little work.8 Support. A dying sai• once cryed out, He is come, he is come (meaning the Lord) with a great reward, for a little worke.