B02840:263
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.
As for the time that this relates to (In those days and in that time saith the Lord) It looks, literally and according to the Cohesion, to Babylons Destruction, and […] Lords bringing down that Babylonish Monarchy by the Persian King Cyrus; In which time the People of God had some liberty to return to their own land: Yet ⟨p. 184⟩considering the great scope of the Words, and that this liberty of the Jews is in a great part fulfilled in Christ; and that the union spoken of here is such as hath in it the gathering together of all the Tribes; and withal, that the Covenant which they enter into with the Lord Christ, is such as shall never be forgotten: We must extend the words to their Engrafting again into their own Olive: when all Israel shall be saved, and they shall be grafted into their own root and Stock from off which they were broken. As for the Scope, it's partly off encourage the Jews; This being not only a Promise of their return, but also and mainly of their Repentance, and of their Friendship & Reconciliation with God and with one another; In those days they that had been far from him, and busy vexing one another, shall come, and come together: Their work and business in coming, is to seek the Lord; and the manner of it, is going and weeping: Praying and repenting: and although the way be somewhat dark, and not so discernible to them: yet they go on, asking the way to Zion with their faces thitherward: They ask how they may come to Him, worship God again aright and perform the duties of a people inchurched to, and in Covenant with him; And (as it were) from one Post or Town to another, they ask the way, and get Direction from one day to another, and from one duty to another: And their design in all is, Come, say they on the matter, we were once in Covenant with God and with one another, but we have been unfaithful in both, now let us amend and make up the breach in both: Let us Join our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant never to be forgotten: Let us renew our Covenant with God, and let it be done firmly and surely, so as it may not be broken again: this looks and hath respect to Jeremiah 31.31, &c. and 32.49. ⟨p. 185⟩40. Where the Lord Promiseth To make a new Covenant with the House of Israel and with the house of Judah: Cited by the Apostle,