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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
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Object. Alas! fain would I come to the wedding, but I cannot come, it will not do with me; I would fain believe, but my Faith is not Prompt and ready. I Answer. Is not the Covenant provided with an answer to that also? It calls for nothing but for your Subscribing; and if ye say ye cannot; look well that it be not a shift; it comes to this, yea or nay, and if ye say, ye cannot say Yea in Faith, which yet thou wouldest fain be at; is there not a promise of Grace, that though your hand be as it were withered, if ye mint and essay, you shall be enabled to stretch it forth: Faith may come in the very essaying to grip him, only essay it and it shall go with you.
Object. Alace! fain would I come to the wedding, but I cannot come, it will not do with me; I would fain believe, but my Faith is not Prompt and ready. I Answer. Is not the Covenant provided with an answer to that also? It calls for nothing but for your Subscribing; and if ye say ye cannot; look well that it be not a shift; it comes to this, yea or nay, and if ye say, ye cannot say Yea in Faith, which yet thou wouldest fain be at; is there not a promise of Grace, that though your hand be as it were withered, if ye mint and essay, you shall be enabled to stretch it forth: Faith may come in the very essaying to grip him, only essay it and it shall go with you.
Object. I have essayed it often, and it hath not gone with me; Ans. Essay it again and cast a new knot; If your evidence be not clear, Subscribe over again.
Object. But it goes not with me, when all is done, I ⟨p. 72⟩cannot believe, I would Subscribe, but I cannot writ (as it were) I cannot distinctly act Faith. Ans. What is that? Our Lord stands not on that, though you cannot write well, do as ye can: It's strange to see, how some's Subscription is almost like a scratching with Crow-toes, yet it's a valid Subscription; some again will write down their mark in place of their name, and that also where it is well known, is admitted as valid; if you cannot (as it were) write your name in fair and legible Letters, set down some Mark, if it were but two scores or lines in any form or figure, If ye cannot act Faith so distinctly, come on as you may; if ye cannot to your satisfaction say, Yea, with the heart, say it with the mouth, striving and longing to have thy heart brought up; force thy self (If I may speak so) to believing; If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe with thy heart, that God raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved,