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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.
It will not stand with you on bygones, if now you deal honestly, The sure Mercies of David will cover and blot out those: and if any of you think, that ye have much debt on your head, as who ha•h not? It will not upbraid you: the iniquity of Jacob shall be sought for, and shall not be found. There shall be, as it were, Scores drawn through them, your accounts shall be all dashed out by free graces Pen: This is a cried Fair and Proclaimed Market of free ⟨p. 150⟩grace, from which no honest comer shall be secluded, thrust back or sent away empty; for here an empty pur•e needs not make a (blate o) bashful Merchant. 2. Grace stands not precisely on fore-prepa ations (whe•e Souls honestly and sincerely come) as that ye have not been so and so humbled, and have not such and such previous qualifications, as ye would be at; Nay someway it excludes these, as offering to bring money and some price, which would quite spoil the nature of the Market of free grace; nay yet me say further, if it were possible that a soul would come without sense of sin, Grace would embrace it: sense of sin being no condition of the Covenant, but a Physical (to speak so) qualification of the Covenanter, and grace is free to them that want it: and let it be supposed to be in a person void of Grace and still in unrenewed black nature, it's there but a splendid sin, as those shadows of Moral virtues in all merely natural men, are; Grace can, at the instant of coming, create qualifications: there could readily be no qualifications in Zacheus when he was on the tree: Yet Christ tells him, Salvation this day is come to thy house. 3. Grace stands not on the want of any effect of Faith, where it calls to believing: it will not stand on darkness of interest, nor on want of progress in Sanctification, nor on things being out of order: for where it comes, it puts things in order; It will be no relevant exception for a person that hath no• closed with the bargain and hath not embraced Christ, to say, alas! I have no love to God, to the Godly and to his interest: because Grace can say, thou hast not closed with Christ, and so canst not have the effect before the cause: come and close, and these and other effects shall follow. 4. It stands not on degrees of Faith, nor on the strength firmness and height of it;