B02840:153
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.
a lazy secure, whole-hearted conversation, when a person is lying by, and is not setting himself against, nor purifying himself from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, but at truce with corruption, is not sure, becoming the Gospel: Hence the Apostle, Rom. 7. hath such a combat with the remainder of indwelling corruption, Sometimes complaining of: sometimes Protesting against it, and sometimes bitterly bemoaning and crying out under its captivating power: There being in the Believer two contrary parties, one of Grace and another of corrupt nature, which are contrary one to another, as it is, Gal. 5.17. A Believer in a Gospel Conversation is like Jacobs and Esau's Struggling in the womb: It is for this cause that, Ephes. 6. All the pieces of the Spiritual armour are particularly described, and Christians, as Christs soldiers, commanded to put them on: and to have a Gospel-conversation is to be improving all the pieces of that complete Armour of God aright, to their several ends.
a lazie secure, whole-hearted conversation, when a person is lying by, and is not setting himself against, nor purifieing himself from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, but at truce with corruption, is not sure, becoming the Gospel: Hence the Apostle, Rom. 7. hath such a combate with the remainder of indwelling corruption, Sometimes complaining of: sometimes Protesting against it, and sometimes bitterly bemoaning and crying out under its captivating power: There being in the Believer two contrary parties, one of Grace and another of corrupt nature, which are contrary one to another, as it is, Gal. 5.17. A Believer in a Gospel Conversation is like Jacobs and Esaus Strugling in the womb: It is for this cause that, Ephes. 6. All the pieces of the Spirituall armour are particularly described, and Christians, as Christs souldiers, commanded to put them on: and to have a Gospel-conversation is to be improving all the pieces of that compleat Armour of God aright, to their several ends.