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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.
Though we be absent in the Body, that yet we may be some way present in our Spirits with the Lord; that we should make frequent visits to Heaven; that we should have much to do there, have much Traffic, commerce, correspondence and intercourse in and with Heaven; that (in a word) we should converse more where we love, then where we live: which is held forth and expressed in the Scripture, by walking with God, by having fellowship with him, by following hard after him, and the like: a suitableness to and a converse in Heaven are mainly meant here.
Though we be absent in the Body, that yet we may be some way present in our Spirits with the Lord; that we should make frequent visits to Heaven; that we should have much to do there, have much Traffique, commerce, correspondence and intercourse in and with Heaven; that (in a word) we should converse more where we love, then where we live: which is held forth and expressed in the Scripture, by walking with God, by having fellowship with him, by following hard after him, and the like: a suitableness to and a converse in Heaven are mainly meant here.
As for the Second thing proposed, viz. The Confirmation of this, that a Christian should study this Heavenliness of Conversation; the Argument is clear and pressing from Vers. 17. Where the Apostle exhorts the Philippians to be followers of him, and here he tells them that his Conversation is in Heaven: and if his Conversation was in Heaven, then certainly it was their duty and is ours, to have our Conversation in Heaven; for he proposeth himself as our pattern in this, and we have ⟨p. 112⟩it, from the Spirit of God, by him pressed on us as our duty, to imitate him in this thing; It is not so singular a practice; as to be peculiarized, Monopolized and engrossed to him alone; but such as was common to him, and other serious Christians according to their measure; Therefore he says not, My Conversation, but Our Conversation; as if he had said, it's mine and the Conversation of others, and of all that follow me; and I would have you in this to follow me and none other that doth not walk as I do. If it be needful further to confirm it, ye may take this one reason, which hath several arguments in the bosom of it; A Christians Conversation should be Heavenly, because, all that a Christian hath, is from and in Heaven, and is some way Heavenly; as will manifestly appear, if ye look, first to a Christians nature, it's from Heaven; He is Partaker of the Divine Nature, He is born of God, He is of the new Jerusalem, his Father is Heavenly, as he is taught to pray; Our Father which art in Heaven, Or our Heavenly Father; to point out, that as we have born the Image of the earthly, so must we bear the Image of the Heavenly, as it is.