B02840:133
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.
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.
The point of Doctrine, to which we would speak from these words, and which lyeth obviously in them is; That, they who are Priviledged 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 lesse, that none will dare down-right to denie it, and that the reason• a•e so obvious.
There a•e three Uses of it, that we would speak a little to; The First is for instruction, to teach us our duty: The Second is of Regra•e and expostulation, that the Professors of the Gospel, and of the Name of Christ should be so unlike and unanswerable to it: The Third is of Exhortation to this so very necessary and so muc• called for a duty, as the Compend of all duties, which we would press and set home by some consideration drawn from the necessity and advantage of it.
There a•e three Uses of it, that we would speak a little to; The First is for instruction, to teach us our dutie: The Second is of Regrae and expostulation, that the Professors of the Gospel, and of the Name of Christ should be so unlike and uanswerable to it: The Third is of Exhortation to this so verie necessarie and so muc called for a dutie, as the Compend of all duties, whic we would presse and set home by some consideration drawn from the necessitie and advantage of it.