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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.
My brethren (says James) Count it all joy when ye fall into ⟨p. 93⟩divers temptations, or tribulations: It makes pleasant and heartsome bearing of Crosses from God, and of injuries from men; It makes the Christian stoop humbly and very low to these; It will not suffer him to render evil for evil, but will put him to do good for evil, and it makes him do it on a Gospel ground and account; because Christ frankly forgave the Christian ten thousand Talents of his debt: he is ready to forgive, an hundred pence of petty and inconsiderable injuries done against him. 17ly. A Gospel conversation is a sweet, quiet, peaceable, well humoured Conversation, it makes men and women good to live with, It hath much love and pity to them that are without, it's a good neighbour, it's a great friend to unity and a great enemy to division: it presses hard after standing fast in on Spirit.. 18ly. A Gospel-conversation implies a settled, fixed condition, that is not fleeting and wavering: It suffers not Christians to be one thing to day and another thing to morrow, very unbecoming the Gospel: a Gospel-conversation will not suffer a man to be a temporizer, or one that cometh and goeth with every turn of the tide, to be of any Party that is upmost: but puts to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made him free: the Believers heart is fixed, and his conversation is stable, when it is, as it becometh the Gospel. 19ly. It's a bold Conversation, that will scare at no trial for Christ, but will hazard and venture far, ere it expose the Gospel to contempt and reproach; Therefore it is said, Philip. 1. In nothing being terrified by your adversaries: It is very loth to do or to forbear any thing, that may make the Gospel to be evil spoken of. 20ly. It is a Spiritual conversation, or a walking in the Spirit, as the word is, Gal. 5. Walk in the spirit (saith the Apostle) And ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh, and Vers. 25. If we ⟨p. 94⟩live in the Spirit let us walk in the Spirit: It makes us to pray in the Spirit, to praise in the Spirit: and by assistance of the Spirit, it puts upon endeavours to do every thing that is called for. 21ly. A Gospel conversation is a wrestling and fighting conversation, striving and warring against temptations without, and a body of death within: