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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.
The Second Use is, For Exhortation; would ye then know the duty that ye are called unto? this is it, Let not Gods People and Saints turn again to folly, Let not ⟨p. 171⟩the Idler return to his Idleness; the tippler to his tippling, the scoffer to his Scoffing; the ignorant, who have been at a little pains to learn some questions before the examination and communion, to his negligence in seeking after knowledge, &c. Let not this be; If ye have vomited out these and other sins, Lick them not up again To press this Use a little, we would First Give you some considerations from the Text. Secondly, Some directions to help you forward in the Practice of it.
The Second Use is, For Exhortation; would ye then know the duty that ye are called unto? this is it, Let not Gods People and Saints turn again to follie, Let not ⟨p. 171⟩the Idler return to his Idleness; the tippler to his tippling, the scoffer to his Scoffing; the ignorant, who have been at a litle pains to learn some questions before the examination and communion, to his negligence in seeking after knowledge, &c. Let not this be; If ye have vomited out these and other sins, Lick them not up again To presse this Use a litle, we would First Give you some considerations from the Text. Secondly, Some directions to help you forward in the Practice of it.
For the first, viz. Some considerations from the Text to press i•; First, Is it not a folly to sin once? If so, sure, it is much more to relapse into sin. Whether is it more true wisdom to abstain from those Sins, or to fall back into them: Is it not more wisdom for you who have been given to Tippling or drunkenness, to neglect of Prayer and the like, now to let alone sins, and to give your selves to Prayer, then to be walking in the street on the Plain-stones? Is it not more wisdom to be given to edifying discourse, then to be laughing and sporting over the time? Is it not better to come to the Church, then to spend the time Idly, In discoursing and waiting for a Tentation? And if your conscience assent to the truth of this, then we take witness in your Conscience, that it doth so, and this Instrument of witness will stand on record against you, if ye shall turn to those sins and to this Folly again. 2. Have ye been examining your selves? And do ye find, that much of your life hath been spent in folly, by Some Twenty, by some Thirty, by some Forty, by some Fifty, by some Sixty years. And every days account cast up amounts only to folly, vanity and Madness? And is it not enough, and may it not suffice you, that ye have spent so long time in folly, though ye spend no more so? 3. Hath not God been speaking peace to some, and