B02840:279
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.
Use, 1. Lay this for an unquestionable ground, that if ever ye be well, it must be by this Covenant with God: is there any conviction of sin, of violating by gone engagements to God, and of wrongs done to him? take it for a certain truth, that things must be thus adjusted and thus secured betwixt God and you; that ye must have pardon & peace by entering into, & making sure the new Covenant with God on the Grounds of his own grace; That is, when God is treating with you & declaring that he is content to close with you, on Condition, that ye will take with your sin, renounce your own righteousness and submit to Christs, and be content to live to him all the days of your life that are behind; step to & close with him on his own terms: for the hearts yielding its consent to God, is the making of the Covenant; & tha• entitleth to all the good that is in the Bible; In Sum it's this, if ye, (saith the Lord) accept of my offering my self to be your God, and consent to give up you• selves to me, if ye will quit your own righteousness an• embrace Christs, I will Pardon your sin, I will b• forth coming to you for happiness, and will sanctify ⟨p. 197⟩you and make you fit to be Partakers of it; and your making of the Covenant sure, is your yielding to be happy on these terms, even to be content to take Justification & Pardon of sin freely by virtue of Christs satisfaction, and to give up your selves to be his, to be for him and to live to him and not to your selves; as ye get God engaged to be yours, so ye engage and subscribe to be Gods, and to walk suitably, according to your engagement, in his strength, to be for him and for no other, as the word is, Hos. 3. or as it is, Isaiah 44.5. One shall say, I am the Lords, and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord and surname himself by the name of Israel; He shall, as it were, write down his Name, I am Gods: This, in short, is Covenanting with God; which may be done in hearing the word, in Praying, in meditating, and in Communicating; when Faith is distinctly, at least, really and truly exercised on Gods offer and Promise; and when upon deliberation, there is a sincere resolving with the persons self, I will take God as be offers himself to me, and will give up and away my self to him: and when, according to the resolution, there is actually a yielding to God.