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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.
to have Faith and Hope exercised in and about heaven, to send many prayers and desires to heaven, as so many empty vessels; and to be in the lively and longing expectation of their return full and richly loaden; to make many visits (as I said before) to heaven; and to be in all those, neither ⟨p. 118⟩seldom, nor transiently and at starts only, but to be frequent and more continuing in them; and though they should sometimes return either with seeming loss, or with very little gain, yet to keep up the trade and traffic, seeking to make up our loss by a new voyage thither: for the trade is not always (to speak so) alike quick. Fifthly, We may be said to converse in heaven, by our abiding (as it were) in heaven; and this is one of the highest steps of a heavenly Conversation. If ye shall ask How it is, that a believer, while on earth, doth or can abide in Heaven? I Answer these ways, or in these respects: 1. By having his heart in heaven, where his treasure is; For (as the Lord says) Where a mans treasure is, there is his heart: the man (as it were) dwells there, and if at any time he remove a little, he leaves there his great stock, and his heart as a Factor: so, though the Christian be discoursing, buying, selling, eating, drinking &c. Yet in all these, his heart may and ought some way to be in heaven. 2. To have his Faith in heaven, and, as it were, never to come out of it. 3. To have his love in heaven, folding its two arms about the Lamb and him that sits on the Throne; holily loth to have them loosed from those sweet Soul solacing and satisfying embraces. 4. To have his hope in heaven, which is an Anchor cast within the veil, and makes the soul safe and sure amidst the greatest tempests of outward trouble, as a ship rideth safely when she hath cast Anchor on firm ground, so that there is no fear she will drive. In a word, these Four, The Heart, Faith, Hope, and Love, being in heaven, we may say that the mans best half and Part is in heaven: his •edder stake is loosed, and much of his Tabernacle taken down, and he made in a good measure meet, ready and ripe for his dissolution and for heaven: Thus ye are called and ⟨p. 119⟩obliged to have your Conversation in heaven. Sixthly, A Believers conversation may be said to be, and ought to be in heaven, when his contentment, delight and satisfaction are in heaven;