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Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…
Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace and solid joy of a good conscience sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and exercised always to be void of offence toward God and toward men : brought down and holden forth in XXII very searching sermons on several texts of Scripture ... / by James Durham.
Edinburgh: printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, 1685
Title page typeset from the transcription.
To the reader: TO THE READERS, And more particularly to the Inhabitants of the City of GLASGOW.
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.
The re-introduction, restoration, and renovation of the pristine beautiful conformity to the glorious Image of God (with their reconciliation and justification through his satisfaction to divine justice) in some of the universally lapsed and loosed posterity of Adam, even all the elect and gifted ones to the Mediator to be redeemed, sanctified and saved by him, in order to the capacl•ating of them to enjoy fellowship with God, (forefaulted by the fall) and that by a new Creation (the very splendour and glory of the whole Creation) was the great errand and business, for which Christ Jesus came▪ into the world; who being the head and foundation-stone of this new Creation, hath gracious undertaken to prepare, sanctify and glorify his mystical body, or all the elect given to him by Jehovah: which he accordingly effecteth, and bringeth to pass, by regenerating them, by sanctifying them, and by carrying on this work of sanctification in the growth and gradual advances thereof, till it be perfected and consummated in glory: whereby the Image of God in men is again renewed, and restored both in their souls and bodies respectively, in a good measure now in this life, and shall be perfectly in the life to come; where, as they shall all see him as he is, intuitively face to face, and enjoy him fully and immediately, without any the least moments interruption through all eternity, so they ⟨image 5⟩shall be like him, perfectly like him, according to Creature capacity; resembling him to the very •fe: All the faculties and powers of their souls partake of this renewed work; The Understanding being savingly enlightened; the will rectified; the Affections reduced •nto order; the Memory strengthened, and the Conscience much cleansed and calmed, and put into a capacity as to accuse and condemn, so to excuse, allow and absolve, as there is just ground for either; and they put to make it their great business about which they allow themselves to be exercised, always to have it void of offence toward God and toward men?
The re-introduction, restauration, and renovation of the pristine beautiful conformitie to the glorious Image of God (with their reconciliation and justification through his satisfaction to divine justice) in some of the universally lapsed and losed posterity of Adam, even all the elect and gifted ones to the Mediator to be redeemed, sanctified and saved by him, in order to the capaclating of them to enjoy fellowship with God, (forefaulted by the fall) and that by a new Creation (the very splendor and glory of the whole Creation) was the great earnd and bussiness, for which Christ Jesus came into the world; who being the head and foundation-stone of this new Creation, hath gracious undertaken to prepare, sanctifie and glorifie his mystical body, or all the elect given to him by Iehovab: which he accordingly effecteth, and bringeth to passe, by regenerating them, by sanctifying them, and by carrying on this work of sanctification in the growth and gradual advances thereof, till it be perfected and consummated in glory: whereby the Image of God in men is again renewed, and restored both in their souls and bodies respectively, in a good measure now in this life, and shall be perfectly in the life to come; where, as they shall all see him as he is, intuitively face to face, and enjoy him fully and immediately, without any the least moments interruption through all eternity, so they