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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.
As for the Particular Scope of this place, as it relateth to Israel and Judah, their returning together, we shall not insist in it: yet from these words we may see. First, That There is good ground for us to expect the Lords bringing back his scattered People the Jews, and their engrafting again into their own Olive: The same God that persuaded Japheth to dwell in the Tents of Shem, can persuade Shem to dwell in the tents of Japheth: As they minded us Gentiles, as a little Sister, and were Holily Solicitous what they might do for us, we ought in gratitude to mind them as the elder Sister, that they may turn again to the Lord: who hath given us his faithful Word for it, which cannot fail but must be fulfilled.
As for the Particular Scope of this place, as it relateth to Israel and Judah, their returning together, we shall not insist in it: yet from these words we may see. First, That There is good ground for us to expect the Lords bringing back his scattered People the Jews, and their ingraffing again into their own Olive: The same God that perswaded Japhet to dwel in the Tents of Shem, can perswade Shem to dwell in the tents of Japhet: As they minded us Gentiles, as a litle Sister, and were Holily Solicitous what they might do for us, we ought in gratitude to mind them as the elder Sister, that they may turn again to the Lord: who hath given us his faithful Word for it, which cannot fail but must be fulfilled.
Secondly, We see, that Heart-melting towards God and seriousness to make up the breach of a broken Covenant betwixt a People and him, conduce natively to make the hearts of those that have been divided and set at variance from one another, in much warmness of love to unite and sweetly to join together: It's from this, that Israel and Judah become one Stick in the Lords hand, Ezek. 37. This makes them as melted metal to run close ⟨p. 186⟩together, as it were, into one Lump: though it was a long continued Schism, and had much bitterness attending it: yet when their hearts are touched with a Sense of sin and of a broken Covenant, their former differences and animosities evanish: softness of heart in the sense of by gone sin, would silence many things among us; that all disputings, writings and Printings will not be able to do: Pray for this to the Land, as the most effectual mean and way of curing out divisions, and of uniting us in the Lord: It Joins Judah and Israel together, whose breach was much greater, and of far longer continuance then ours.