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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.
Yea suppose ye come to repentance (and a hundred to one if ever ye come to it) ye shall weep and mourn bitterly, that ever ye hazarded so on sin over your light and convictions, and over the belly of your Conscience? If ye get not repentance (as I am afraid many never shall) what will come of it? Convictions and challenges will wear out; the heart will grow harder, you will ⟨p. 174⟩go on Laughing at reproofs, mocking at exhortations to Repentance and Reformation, and regardlessly treading on what might reclaim you; you will be angry at them who brought you under any engagements: ye will become very Atheists in your hearts, and as so many profane Heathens in your carriage and when you have lived thus for a time (and the Lord knows how long) will ye not come to die? will not your month come on you? will not your bed take you, or ye take your bed? and then the Conscience will either awake or be silent; if it awake, will not this be your language, which is the language of many a poor wretched creature? Woe is me, I have misspent my time, and have been glutting my self with the World and sinful pleasures: Oh vain world! O bewitching and beguiling world! Alas that ever I was so much taken up with it: And if the Conscience be quiet, what will come of it? Will that fin lie on, and not be sought account of? know ye not, consider ye not that word, Gal. 6 Be not deceived, God will not be Mocked; As men sow, so they shall reap? Think ye that God will be inferior to the Creature? will not your Governor or Land-Lord seek account of you according to your engagement? And shall not the Lord call you to a reckoning? Yea certainly: and the Conscience will then awake and roar on you; then the curse, Woe and damnation will seize upon, and take hold of your Soul in death: and devils shall carry it thither, where Hypocrites are, until the Judgement of the great day: and then ye will say, turning again to sin was the greatest folly and madness: And thus, whether God have a purpose of repentance to you or not, ye shall one day rue it at all the veins of your heart (to speak so) and shall find the folly of it, and that to your everlasting prejudice and loss, if ye repent not.
Yea suppose ye come to repentance (and a hundred to one if ever ye come to it) ye shall weep and mourn bitterly, that ever ye hazarded so on sin over your light and convictions, and over the belly of your Conscience? If ye get not repentance (as I am afraid many never shall) what will come of it? Convictions and challenges will wear out; the heart will grow harder, you will