A77593:651
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.
Sermon › That the Lord gives his best Gifts, to his best Beloved ones.
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.
And the first is this,
He gives Light to his beloved ones; and Light is a pleasant 1thing to behold, as the wise man speaks. He gives spiritual light, which is a mercy of mercies. Ephes. 5. 14. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall *give thee light. So John 1. 7, 8, 9. He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light that was the ⟨p. 138⟩true light that lighteneth every man that cometh into the world. 3He gives that light whereby his people are enabled to see sin to be the greatest evil, and himself to be the chiefest good. He gives that light that melts the soul, that humbles the soul, that warms the soul, that quickens the soul, that quiets the soul, and that glads the soul Man is not borne with heavenly light in his heart, as he is borne with a tongue in his mouth. Till Christ comes and sets up a light in the soul, the soul lives in darkness, and lies in darkness, yea, is darkness in the very abstract. Ephes. 5. 8. Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord. Saints are always in the Sun-shine, therefore they should be like a Crystal glass, with a light in the midst, which appeareth in every part.
He gives Light to his beloved ones; and Light is a pleasant 1