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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 repairing and making up of a breach betwixt God and a People, is a matter of greatest moment and Concern, and when men are serious in it, O how uptaking is it to them! Which is holden out to the life in these words; that lay forth before us very clearly the frame and carriage of a people, which formerly have dealt loosely and deceitfully in the matter of their Covenant with God, when they come through his Grace to be serious and in good earnest in the upmaking of it again.
THe repairing and making up of a breach betwixt God and a People, is a matter of greatest moment and Concern, and when men are serious in it, O how uptaking is it to them! Which is holden out to the life in these words; that lay forth before us very clearly the frame and carriage of a people, which formerly have dealt loosly and deceitfully in the matter of their Covenant with God, when they come through his Grace to be serious and in good earnest in the upmaking of it again.
As for the people spoken of here, they are Israel and Judah, the Lo•ds own Covenanted People, who had dealt falsely and foully in the Covenant, and had thereby Procured sad strokes to themselves, and had divided and separated themselves from God, and one of them from another, Which division and separation continued lamentably long? They are both here represented as coming home together, Seriously endeavouring to amend and make up the breach betwixt God and them, and among themselves.
As for the people spoken of here, they are Israel and Judah, the Lo•ds own Covenanted People, who had dealt falsly and foully in the Covenant, and had thereby Procured sad strokes to themselves, and had divided and separated themselves from God, and one of them from another, Which division and separation continued lamentably long? They are both here represented as coming home together, Seriously endeavouring to amend and make up the breach betwixt God and them, and among themselves.