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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.
To clear and Confirm it, take these Three words, Consider; First, What state and Condition man naturally is in. Secondly, What God is to man in reference to that estate; And Thirdly, What Covenanting with God is: and we will find that there is nothing which he should more seriously design and seek after. First, Man is naturally an enemy to God, and in respect of his malicious desperate inclination, given to thwart with God, whereby God stands as an enemy to him; he is liable to the curse of God, and God is as an armed man against him, as Job speaks; and he like an unarmed Child running on the bosses of his Buckler. Secondly, Consider that God is not only an enemy, but stands stated as such with his Curse against sinners according to that word, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the Law to do them; and this Curse is like the flaming Sword in the hand of the Cherubims, which with terror separates betwixt God and the sinner, So that there is no access for him to God; and if he have any thoughts of God, he is troubled with them; and all the Creatures are armed against him, So that he can expect nothing ⟨p. 204⟩but enmity from every stone of the field. Third• Consider, that Covenanting with God is that, whe• by a man who is naturally at enmity with God co• eth to be in friendship with him and hath the fa• of every thing altered; the meditation of God sweet to him; the creatures are in league with hi• The Angels become Ministering Spirits to him; a Gods dispensations become lovely and do work t• gather for his good, even those that are in themselves most terrible; Death and the Grave becom• servants to him; and being in Covenant with Go• he can triumph over them and all troubles and pe• secutions, and say that he is More then Conqueror […] them all, as it is Rom. 8. and saith the Apostle t• such,