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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.
As for the qualifications of duty, which the Gospel addeth, they are these. 1. A new end; for our end in duty now is, not to gain life by it, but simply to glorify God, as we may see. 1 Cor. 10.31. I will not say, but this end was in the Covenant of works, but in the Gospel this is not only the main end, but some way the only end, and the other quite excluded and thrust out; and when we speak of the glory of God, we take in the glory of Grace and the glory of the Redeemer, who furnisheth Grace. 2. It adds a sweet Motive, viz. love to Jesus Christ: The love of Christ (saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 5.14.) Constraineth us: It is no more mere awe, that is the Motive, but love and love to God in Christ, who hath redeemed and bought us. 3. The Gospel qualifies our obedience and walk, as to our undertaking thereof: that it be not in our own strength, but in the strength of Jesus Christ: it teacheth us to go through the wilderness leaning on the Beloved, and leaving the burden of the work on him; trusting more to him, then to our own feet or strength, as knowing that we cannot cripple out the way, nor do any thing without him, as it is. John 15.5, 4. There is a ⟨p. 87⟩Qualification, required in respect of the frame of our own heart, with respect to a twofold fear, one is a filial and reverential fear, that proceeds from Faith, in which we are to work out the work of our Salvation. The other is, that it be without the fear that is opposite to the former as the word is. Luke 1.74. The Gospel calleth us in our walk, to have a fear without fear, a reverential fear, without slavish fear: it would have us neither to be altogether afraid because of the Law, which hath terror, nor to be without filial fear, for that is presumption, but to have faith and fear mixed together. 5. The Gospel qualifies our walk in spiritual duties, in respect of our cheerfulness in going about them, which are to us (in so far as we have corruption in us) Heavy and grievous; but the Gospel maketh them easy and light, as it is said, Matth. 11. ult. His yoke is easy and His burden light. Though it be a Yoke, yet it is portable and light, when Christ and the Believer are yoked together: nor are any of His Commands grievous, as it is