B02840:294
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.
Thirdly Observe, that A well qualified desire of Covenanting with God is a good token of Conversion; or a ⟨p. 210⟩rightly biassed desire of being in Covenant with God the language of Persons coming home to God: Come ([…] they) and let us join our selves to the Lord in a perp• uall Covenant: The Lord see s down this as their co• mendation, and as an evidence of his begun Gracio• work in them; They, no doubt, had wo ds of Co• nanting before: but wanted this right impulse and d• sire, and therefore Sat still, but now they are much a• fected, stirred and put to their feet; It being a• effe• of the Poured out Spirit on them. We sa•, this is good token of a begun work of Grace, and of person their coming home to God: because this impulse t• wards, and desire of Covenanting with Go• speaks o• these three. First, The sense of their need of him a• that they cannot live without him, and the stopping […] their Mouth with Holy shame and confusion befo• God. Secondly, An high estimation that they have […] him, a Judging that they have no happiness but in bin Thirdly, It speaks out faith, in their actual betaking of themselves to him for the up making of what the want and stand in need of: There is some what of a these in the Prodigal, who when he came to himself reckons thus with himself, 1. I perish for hunger, thi• Points at the sense of his need. 2. There is Bread enough in my Fathers house and to spare, which shows his Believing esteem of the fullness of God for a supply of hi• need, and for making him a Poor Miserable Perishing wretch completely happy. 3. His resolution is, I will go and say, Father, &c. This holds out his actual purpose of Covenanting with God, which hath always faith in it: It is the same on the matter with this, Come and let us join our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant.