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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.
First The Gospel calls for Holiness in a sixfold extent; a failing or defect in any of which, makes a Conversation in so far to be unbecoming the Gospel. 1. It calls for Holiness in respect of all sorts of duties, be ye Holy (saith Peter, 1 Pet. 1.15.) in all manner of Conversation, as God is Holy: in Prosperity and Adversity: in Religious, in Moral, and in Natural Actions; for it is written, be ye Holy for I am Holy. 2. It is extended universally to all Particular and individual duties and actions of all those ⟨p. 83⟩sorts; it reacheth all manner of Conversation; The Divinely inspired Scriptures instruct the man of God, how he may be made Perfect in every good work, as it is, 2 Tim. 3. And a failing in thought, word or deed is unbecoming the Gospel. 3. It is extended in respect of the subject, viz. the whole man, and Presseth that he be Sanctified throughout, So 1 Thess. 5.23. The Apostle Prays, the God of peace Sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole Spirit Soul and Body, be Preserved blameless; And 2 Cor. 7.1. It puts to cleanse from all filth of the Flesh and Spirit: It requires that the Judgements be kept sound, and that no error or untruth be admitted by it, that the Mind be sober, and free from any sinful distemper; that the affections be Sanctifiedly regular, and that they debord not: That the will be straight and brought up to the straight rule of obedience; and that the Conscience be kept tender, that it be neither darkened nor impure; That the members of the Body be yielded as instruments unto righteousness. 4. It is extended to holiness, in respect of all capacities, Callings, Stations and Relations, of Husbands and Wives, of Masters and Servants, of Parents and Children, as the Apostle Paul Heartily and frequently doth in his Epistles, namely, Col. 3. and 4. Eph. 5. and 6. Tit. 2. Where he presses it upon Servants by this Argument, That the Doctrine of God may be adorned: and on wives by this, that the Doct ine of God may not be blasphemed, and on all thus, That the grace of God hath appeared in the Gospel (for that very end. 5. It's extended