B02840:276
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.
it is too evident, what ever our professions be, that we are much cooled and fallen behind in our Love to one another. A Seventh Challenge is, lying long under a seen evil condition without being suitably affected with it: therefore these People go now with the more tenderness about the work of turning to God, and of their renewing Covenant with him, that they were so long a falling to it: I suppose many of you, who never knew what Repentance was, and others also who have been more serious then now they are, may have this challenge: It is no Strange nor uncouth thing that is called for from us, to fit and prepare us for Fasts and Communions, it is even seriousness in these most plain, Common and Obvious things: and if ye can hold up your faces and say, that these concern you not nor the Present occasion, ye may wave and lay them aside: but if they be such things as your Consciences convince you of: it is most necessary, that ye take time to think upon them and lay them to Heart: and that ye study through Grace to be Humbled for them before the Lord.
it is too evident, what ever our professions be, that we are much cooled and fallen behind in our Love to one another. A Seventh Challenge is, lying long under a seen evil condition without being suitably affected with it: therefore these People go now with the more tenderness about the work of turning to God, and of their renewing Covenant with him, that they were so long a falling to it: I suppose many of you, who never knew what Repentance was, and others also who have been more serious then now they are, may have this challenge: It is no Strange nor uncouth thing that is called for from us, to fit and prepare us for Fasts and Communions, it is even seriousness in these most plain, Common and Obvious things: and if ye can hold up your faces and say, that these concern you not nor the Present occasion, ye may wave and lay them aside: but if they be such things as your Consciences convince you of: it is most necessarie, that ye take time to think upon them and lay them to Heart: and that ye study through Grace to be Humbled for them before the Lord.
But the Observation, that we intended mainly to speak a word to at this time, is this, that There is no amending or righting of an ill condition, but by making