B02840:132
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.
We shall at this time speak of the exhortation, Only let your Conversation be, as becometh the Gospel of Christ: Where, by Conversation, we understand the whole of a mans carriage and walk towards and before God and men; and by the Gospel, the whole Doctrine thereof, as it respects Faith and manners or Practice, but here more especially, as it respects Faith in Christ, both as it is opposed to Heathenism, and as it's opposed to the Law or Covenant of Works: To walk then as becometh the Gospel, is to walk answerably and suitably to it, and in the whole of their carriage and Deportment, to make a manifest difference to appear betwixt themselves and all other Persons; as they are dignified, and as the Gospel requireth.
We shall at this time speak of the exhortation, Only let your Conversation be, as becometh the Gospel of Christ: Where, by Conversation, we understand the whole of a mans carriage and walk towards and before God and men; and by the Gospel, the whole Doctrine thereof, as it respects Faith and manners or Practice, but here more especially, as it respects Faith in Chr•st, both as it is opposed to Heathenisme, and as it's opposed to the Law or Covenant of Works: To walk then as becometh the Gospel, is to walk answerably and suitably to it, and in the whole of their carriage and Depo•tment, to make a manifest difference to appear betwixt themselves and all other Persons; as they are dignified, and as the Gospel requireth.
The point of Doctrine, to which we would speak from these words, and which lieth obviously in them is; That, they who are Privileged with the Gospel, ought seriously to endeavour, and to make it their great business, to have their Conversation suitable to, and becoming the same. This is some way the one thing required of all the hearers of the Gospel, of all that are Baptized in the name of Christ: We need not stay on the Proof and reasons of it, and the less, that none will dare down-right to deny it, and that the reason• a•e so obvious.