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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.
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.
There are five Negatives in the Greek, to assure Gods people that he will never forsake them. Five times this precious Promise is renewed in the Scripture, that we might have the stronger Consolation, and that we may press and oppress it, till we have gotten all the sweetness out of it; and verily many precious souls have sucked much sweetness out of the breasts of this Promise, when their nearest relations, and their dearest friends have forsaken them, and forgotten them. God loves that his people should put his Bonds, his Promises in suite; and he that does, shall find God near him, ⟨p. 144⟩though friends should leave him, and the world be in arms against him, &c. If the soul be tempted, then that word of Promise relieves it, 1 Cor. 10. 13. But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able, &c. The Promises are a Christians Magna Charta, they are his chief Evidences for heaven. Men highly prize their Charters and Privileges, and carefully keep the Conveyances and Assurances of their Lands: Oh! how should Saints then treasure up and keep these Precious Promises which the Lord ha's given them, and which are to them instead of all Assurances, for their protection, maintenance, deliverance, comfort, and everlasting happiness? And thus much for the sixth gift the Lord gives, viz. The Promises.
There are five Negatives in the Greek, to assure Gods people that he will never forsake them. Five times this precious Promise is renewed in the Scripture, that we might have the stronger Consolation, and that we may presse and oppresse it, till we have gotten all the sweetnesse out of it; and verily many precious soules have suckt much sweetnesse out of the breasts of this Promise, when their nearest relations, and their dearest friends have forsaken them, and forgotten them. God loves that his people should put his Bonds, his Promises in suite; and he that does, shall find God near him, ⟨p. 144⟩though friends should leave him, and the world be in armes against him, &c. If the soule be tempted, then that word of Promise relieves it, 1 Cor. 10. 13. But God is faithfull, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able, &c. The Promises are a Christians Magna Charta, they are his chief Evidences for heaven. Men highly prize their Charters and Priviledges, and carefully keep the Conveyances and Assurances of their Lands: Oh! how should Saints then treasure up and keep these Precious Promises which the Lord ha's given them, and which are to them instead of all Assurances, for their protection, maintenance, deliverance, comfort, and everlasting happinesse? And thus much for the sixth gift the Lord gives, viz. The Promises.