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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.
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. 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 cheerfull 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 choycest Gifts, Gifts fit for none but a King to 2give.
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