B02840:293
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.
Speaks of it as his One Thing, and when persons are suitably serious in this, it is their one thing, and not a piece of work only on the by: and if they may come to it in all their lifetime, they think (as they have reason to do) that they make a good bargain: and have gained a noble Prize: never did a man on Horse back, in a race, spur faster then they do, that by any means they may attain it. Fourthly, The principle of desire after Covenanting with God holds them constantly in an estimation of, and sucking at it as the mean of their life; as the Babe cannot live without the breasts, So they cannot live without the Covenant; they cannot rest but in it: I speak not now what Believers are in their declinings: but when they are in a right Frame, they have no being but in this Covenant; they must needs have milk flowing through the Breasts of it for their nourishment; that is a cursed life or ra•her death of persons, who come to the word, and ca•e not whether it be made lively or not, and come to the Communion and care not whether they get by it any life and comfort or not: and a cursed Faith that keeps Souls from making use of Christ: and such is the faith of many hearers of the Gospel: Now Covenanting is the Believers Earnest, and they are thereby made to forget their Fathers house, in hope to be admitted to dwell with Christ for evermore.
Speaks of it as his One Thing, and when persons are suitably serious in this, it is their one thing, and not a peece of work only on the by: and if they may come to it in all their lifetime, they think (as they have reason to do) that they make a good bargain: and have gained a noble Prize: never did a man on Horse back, in a race, spur faster then they do, that by any means they may attain it. Fourthly, The principle of desire after Covenanting with God holds them constantly in an estimation of, and sucking at it as the mean of their life; as the Babe cannot live without the breasts, So they cannot live without the Covenant; they cannot rest but in it: I speak not now what Believers are in their declinings: but when they are in a right Frame, they have no being but in this Covenant; they must needs have milk flowing through the Breasts of it for their nourishment; that is a cursed life or ra•her death of persons, who come to the word, and ca•e not whether it be made lively or not, and come to the Communion and care not whether they get by it any life and comfort or not: and a cursed Faith that keeps Souls from making use of Christ: and such is the faith of many hearers of the Gospel: Now Covenanting is the Believers Earnest, and they are thereby made to forget their Fahers house, in hope to be admitted to dwell with Christ for evermore.