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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 the Second Thing, viz. What it is wherein, or in reference to what we do press your taking warning and being wary? And here I would have you, First, To be aware not only of mo•e gross sins, but even of all such things in general, which Tentations use ordinarily to make their approaches and assaults by; as namely little sins (little I mean Comparatively) Is it not a little one? saith Lot of Zoar. O! How unsuitable was it for him, to whom the Lord had but a very little before spoken such a great and gracious word of peace, as that; Depart for I can do nothing, so long as thou art here: and yet the same night or the Morrow, this escapes him; and readily, when people fall once, they fall over and over again; but ye would be ware to seek leave to lurk and lour a while in such Zoars; Beware to say, it's a little Sin: say not, I shall not be drunken, but I must have leave to tipple, and trifle over the time; The devil ⟨p. 168⟩drives sin and Tentation, as a Carpenter driveth a wedge: he will teach and Prompt you to say, we may be cheerful and sport us a while, without regard to the matter, Measure or season, though ye be not profane: but, once let in the point of the wedge by a little sin, and it may become a great one ere all be done, or a grosser one may follow, even as the great end of the wedge doth the lesser. Secondly, Beware of returning to Omissions. Some, it may be, will resolve that they will never tipple nor Swear, nor Commit any such things; but they will, it may be, neglect and omit to Pray as they have (belike) done these few days past: though they go not abroad to the Tavern on the week days, nor go idly in the fields on the Lords-day: yet they may misspend and trifle away their time at home, as if falling back into Omissions, were not a turning again to folly, as well as falling back to Commissions: The confessions of many poor Creatures (who become Publicly and Prodigiously Scandalous) on their death beds or on a Scaffold, that omissions of duty have Predisposed them to, and brought on those gross Commissions, may and should awake and alarm us: ye would therefore with Holy Job Make a Covenant with your eyes and other senses, and make Conscience to keep it. Thirdly, Beware of falling back to a secure cold-rise manner of going about duties of worship alone or in Company, in public or in private:
For the Second Thing, viz. What it is wherein, or in reference to what we do presse your taking warning and being wary? And here I would have you, First, To be aware not only of moe grosse sins, but even of all such things in general, which Tentations use ordinarily to make their approaches and assaults by; as namely litle sins (litle I mean Comparatively) Is it not a litle one? saith Lot of Zoar. O! How unsuitable was it for him, to whom the Lord had but a very litle before spoken such a great and gracious word of peace, as that; Depart for I can do nothing, so long as thou art here: and yet the same night or the Morrow, this escapes him; and readily, when people fall once, they fall over and over again; but ye would be ware to seek leave to lurk and loure a while in such Zoars; Beware to say, it's a litle Sin: say not, I shall not be drunken, but I must have leave to tipple, and triffle over the time; The devil