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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.
1 Weak Saints share with Christ in his Divine Nature. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious Promises, that by these we might be partakers of the Divine 1Nature. Not of the substance of the God-head, as the Familists say, for that is incommunicable. But by the Divine Nature, we are to understand those Divine Qualities, called elsewhere, The Image of God, the Life of God; that whereby we are made like to God in wisdom, and holiness, wherein the Image of God, after which man was at first Created, consists, Ephes. 4. 24. Col. 3. 10. Saints that do partake of this Divine Nature, that is, of those Divine Qualities before spoken of, they resemble God, not only as a picture doth a man, in outward lineaments, but as a Child doth his Father, in countenance and condition. And well may grace be called, The Divine Nature; for as God bringeth light out of darkness, comfort out of sorrow, riches out of poverty, and glory out of shame: so does grace bring day out of night, and sweet out of bitter, and plenty out of poverty, and glory out of shame. It turns Counters into gold, Pebbles into Pearls, sickness into health, weakness into strength, and wants into abundance, Enjoying nothing, and yet possessing all things, 2 Cor. 6. 10. &c.
1 Weake Saints share with Christ in his Divine Nature. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious Promises, that by these we might be partakers of the Divine 1Nature. Not of the substance of the God-head, as the Familists say, for that is incommunicable. But by the Divine Nature, we are to understand those Divine Qualities, called elswhere, The Image of God, the Life of God; that whereby we are made like to God in wisedome, and holinesse, wherein the Image of God, after which man was at first Created, consists,