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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 › The Reasons why God gives his b•st Gifts to his Dearest 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.
First, Because he loves them with the dearest, with the choicest, §The Reasonsand with the strongest love; therefore he gives them the best Gifts.
FIrst, Because he loves them with the dearest, with the choycest, §The Reasonsand with the strongest love; therefore he gives them the best Gifts.
Christ doth not love Believers with a low, flat, dull, common love, with such a love as most men love one another with, but with a love that is like himself. Now men will give as they love, 1 Sam. 1. 4, 5. And Elkanah gave to Penninah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, Portions, but unto Hannah he gave a worthy Portion, for he loved her. 1In the Hebrew it is, He gave her a Gift of the face: That is, a great, an honourable Gift. Men look upon great and honourable Gifts, with a sweet and cheerful countenance: So the Gifts that Jesus Christ gives to Believers, are Gifts of the face; that is, they are the greatest Gifts, the honourablest ⟨p. 152⟩Gifts, the choicest Gifts, Gifts fit for none but a King to 2give.
Christ doth not love Believers with a low, flat, dull, common love, with such a love as most men love one another with, but with a love that is like himselfe. Now men will give as they love, 1 Sam. 1. 4, 5. And Elkanah gave to Penninah his wife, and to all her sonnes and daughters, Portions, but unto Hannah he gave a worthy Portion, for he loved her.