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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.
if ye have quite given over all Hope of your Prayers and other Performances, as to making your peace with God by them, and have in that respect utterly renounced your own righteousness, and so, have no money, no price: though ye be not pinched and pricked at the heart under the sense of sin and deserved wrath, as ye would: yet come, O come. Or, 3. Ye are such as have taken with your sin and lost state, and are in some measure, though but faintly (at least to your own apprehension) stirring towardst Christ, and would fain be at him: up, for to you the offer most kindly says; Hear and your souls shall live, eat and be satisfied. The wares are not brought forth and laid before you, that ye should only (to say so) block or cheapen, and ask the price; but also and mainly, that ye should buy, eat and feed on them; The Gospel doth not, as it were, so much offer to make with you a bargain, as it offers you the benefit of a bargain already made, viz. With Christ: and thus these Three take in every person that wants, and is not, it may be, so sensible of it, and every one that wants and would have.
if ye have quite given over all Hope of your Prayers and other Performances, as to making your peace with God by them, and have in that respect utterly renounced your own righteousness, and so, have no money, no price: though ye be not pinched and pricked at the heart under the sense of sin and deserved wrath, as ye would: yet come, O come. Or, 3. Ye are such as have taken with your sin and lost state, and are in some measure, though but faintly (at least to your own apprehension) stirring towardst Christ, and would fain be at him: up, for to you the offer most kindly sayes; Hear and your souls shal live, eat and be satisfied. The wares are not brought forth and laid before you, that ye should only (to say so) block or cheapen, and ask the price; but also and mainly, that ye should buy, eat and feed on them; The Gospel doth not, as it were, so much offer to make with you a bargain, as it offers you the benefit of a bargain already made, viz. With Christ: and thus these Three take in every person that wants, and is not, it may be, so sensible of it, and every one that wants and would have.
For the Third, viz. The Terms on which the closing of the bargain depends: they are holden forth in Four words in the Text, with Two qualifications: which make up the terms. The first Word is, Come; and that