B02840:280
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
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Jeremiah 50. Vers. 4.5. In those days, and In that time, saith the Lord the Children of Israel shall come, they and the Children of Judah together, going & weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God. Vers. 5. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thither-ward, Saying, come, and let us Join our selves to the Lord, in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50. Vers. 4.5. In those dayes, and In that time, saith the Lord the Children of Israel shall come, they and the Children of Judah together, going & weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God. Vers. 5. They shal ask the way to Zion with their faces thither-ward, Saying, come, and let us Joyn our selves to the Lord, in a perpetuall Covenant that shall not be forgotten.
SERMON II.
Covenanting with God, if it be real, well grounded and sure, is a business of incomparably greatest concern and advantage to sinners; but when it is otherwise, and only Imagined without any Solid ground; it's attended with the greatest disappointment and Prejudice imaginable; a man in that case fancieth himself to be in a state of Friendship and favour with God, while, in the mean time, he is an enemy to God, and God an enemy to him; and is there any disappointment or disadvantage in the world comparable to that? It is one great end and design of all Ordinances, that strangers to God by nature may be engaged to him, and made to become his Covenanted People; It was for this end that Christ came into the world and laid down His life and shed his precious Blood, even to bring Sinners