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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.
Fourthly, It is a Transforming Fellowship, and assimilates the Person Privileged with admission to it, to Him that is conversed with, and with whom Fellowship is attained unto: there is no real Communion with him, but the result of it is some lineament of further likeness to him; We all (saith the Apostle, 2 Cor. 3.18.) Beholding the Glory of the Lord as in a Glass, are changed (or transformed) into the same Image, from Glory to Glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord: Communion with and conformity to God have mutual influence and Reciprocal force each upon other: the more Communion with him, the more likeness and conformity to him, the more likeness to him, the more Communion with him: little Communion with him makes little conformity to him, and little conformity to him cannot but be attended with little Communion with him. Fifthly, It is a wonderful ⟨image 7⟩Fellowship, a fellowship that even sometimes transports, in a manner, the Soul admitted to it, especially in any more then Ordinary way or measure, into a sort of Rapture and ecstasy of Admiration at it: Thus it did David, 2 Sa. 7.18. Who (saith he) am I, O Lord, and what is my Fathers house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? and Solomon, who being very near to God, in that Solemn prayer of his at the Dedication of the Temple, saith, 1 Kings 8.27. But will God indeed dwell with men on earth? and as it is, 2 Chron. 6. vers. 18. But will God in very deed dwell with men on Earth? And indeed it is no great wonder that it be greatly wondered at, that the Infinitely great and Holy God who inhabiteth Eternity, and the High and Lofty one who dwelleth in the High and Holy Place, and is surrounded and attended there, with an Innumerable Company of Angels, & of the Spirits & of Just men made Perfect, all of them shining in light and burning in zeal, none of them wearying to do him service, should humble himself so far and stoop so low, so very low, as to dwell also (an Emphatic also) with sinful, though humble and contrite Creatures, who dwell in Cottages of clay and whose habitation is in the dust, that he who is of purer eyes then that he can behold iniquity without detestation and abhorrency, should yet humble himself not only to Behold, but with delight to dwell and keep fellowship with them, who are in a great measure unholy, and have so much of that dwelling in them, which his Soul hates;