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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.
For tho ye should spend your money, and bestow much labour, and even wear out your very eyes with weeping and your hearts with grief and sorrow, if ye take not this course, all will only have this Motto written thereon, Vanity of vanities, all is but vanity and vexation of spirit: when ye come to feed on it, ye will find it to be but wind: if peace with God, if God and Christ, if grace and Glory be necessary, then this bargain is necessary; but if ye will continue lazy, indifferent, Luk-warm and unconcerned in the matter; ye shall find that ye have sitten in your own light greatly, and suffered the opportunity of the Market to slip, which ye will never possibly recover: And therefore for the Lords sake, let neither legal weeping, carnal fear or sorrow, hypocrisy, self-conceit, nor mistakes of Christ and of free Grace divert you from making this bargain: but seek Grace, come over these and all other obstructions, and while the Market lasts, Come and ⟨p. 149⟩buy without money and without Price. It is hard to know how long your day shall last: There are many Countrysides and Cities, in the streets whereof these Packs (to say so) of rich wares were opened up, Laid forth and exposed to sale, that now for many years, yea for several ages have not heard of them, nor the Gospel preached: what (at least in Purity and Power) is now in Jerusalem, and in the seven famous Churches of Asia, But the voice of Terror, and as it were, the Screeching of Owls? and seeing God is not slack, as men count slackness, what know ye, when the Kingdom of God may be taken from you, and given to others? And when he will cry (to speak so) Pack and go? Every day is not a Market day, every Lords day is not a Communion day: many Congregations in Ireland and else where have sadly found this, wherein it hath come to pass, that great scarcity and want are come where there was once great plenty. And to press this a little further, We may in the First Place Ask, whereat it sticks and halts? I tell you, that there either must be a bargain, or it must (and will sometime) be known where the blame lies: were it but the bare reading of these very words, they bring the invitation and offer to you, and will ye dare to cast at the wares, or the terms on which they are offered? Grace brings a good bargain to you and stoops very low with it. For 1.
For tho ye should spend your money, and bestow much labour, and even wear out your very eyes with weeping and your hearts with grief and sorrow, if ye take not this course, all will only have this Moto written thereon, Vanity of vanities, all is but vanity and vexation of spirit: when ye come to feed on it, ye will find it to be but wind: if peace with God, if God and Christ, if grace and Glory be necessary, then this bargain is necessary; but if ye will continue lazie, indifferent, Luk-warme and unconcerned in the matter; ye shall find that ye have sitten in your own light greatly, and suffered the opportunity of the Market to slip, which ye will never possibly recover: And therefore for the Lords sake, let neither legall weeping, carnal fear or sorrow, hypocrisie, self-conceit, nor mistakes of Christ and of free Grace divert you from making this bargain: but seek Grace, come over these and all other obstructions, and while the Market lasts, Come and