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The unsearchable riches of Christ, and of grace and glory in and through [sic]…The unsearchable riches of Christ, and of grace and glory in and thorow [sic]…
The unsearchable riches of Christ, and of grace and glory in and through [sic] him. Diligently searched into, clearly unfolded, and comfortably holden forth, in fourteen rich gospel sermons preached on several texts, at communions, in Glasgow. / By the late pious & powerful gospel-preacher in that city, Mr. James Durham.The unsearchable riches of Christ, and of grace and glory in and thorow [sic] him. Diligently searched into, clearly unfolded, and comfortably holden forth, in fourteen rich gospel sermons preached on several texts, at communions, in Glasgow. / By the late pious & powerful gospel-preacher in that city, Mr. James Durham.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1685
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.
For the First; it is not one or two or some few that are called, not the great only, nor the Small only, not the holy only, nor the Profane only, but ye are all bidden, the call comes to all and every one of you in Particular, Poor and rich, high and low, holy and profane; Ho (Proclaimeth the Lord, as it were, with an Oyes Isa. 55.1.) Every one that thirsts, come, and he that hath no money, Let him come: whosoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely, Rev. 22.17. Our blessed Lord Jesus is not straitened in his call; and we may humbly say in some measure, that we are not straitened in our bowels; in his name we invite all of you, and make offer of Jesus Christ to be your Husband; that ye may have a room among them that stand by, and be with him for ever: I say we make this offer to all of you, to you that are Atheists, to you that are Graceless, to you that are Ignorant, to you that are Hypocrites, to you that are Lazy and Luk-warm, to the Civil and to the Profane; We pray, We beseech, We obtest you all to come to the wedding; Call (sayeth the Lord) the blind, the maimed, the halt, &c. Bid them all come, Yea compel them to come in: Grace can do moe & greater wonders then to call such, it cannot only make the ⟨p. 58⟩offer of the Marriage to them; but it can make up the Match effectually betwixt Christ and them: We will not, we dare not say, that all of you will get Christ for a Husband, but we do most really offer him to you all, and it shall be your own fault if ye want him and go without him. And therefore before we proceed any further, we do Solemnly Protest, and before God & his Son Jesus Christ, take instruments this day, that this offer is made to you; and that it is told to you in his name, that the Lord Jesus is willing to match with you, even the profanest and most graceless of you, if ye be willing to match with him; and he earnestly invites you to come to the wedding: if you can touch at any thing on his side, that is not ready, or at any thing on your side, but it may through grace be made ready if ye will come, you may: but its impossible: for the Covenant is well ordered and sure, and that in all things, and these words are not the words of men, but the Words of the true and faithful witness, which ye must count and reckon for, when we are dead and gone: He hath killed his Oxen and Fatlings, and prepared his dinner and bid his guests: