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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.
ye then that are indeed serious, and to whom your short comings are really your Souls burden, would not think it any uncouth, strange or extraordinary thing, to find desire and affection running far before your light and practise, (though ye would endeavour to have them foot-side) a Christians desire may be a days Journey (as it were) before himself, as to his attainment: and indeed in some respect it would not be good, ⟨p. 220⟩if it were otherwise, for it is no good sign of progress in Gods way, when the desires of Persons go no further length then their Practise, or when they their Practice falls nothing short of their desires: both in that case are to be much suspected: for even eminently Holy Paul sees himself to be behind, Philip. 3. when he saith, I think not my self perfect, but one thing I do forgetting things that are behind and reaching forth to those things that are before; I press towards the mark: Where he came one Post in his attainment, His desire was ten, in a manner before him: and so is it with those people here spoken of, Come (say they) Let us Join our selves to the Lord; they find themselves to be behind, and endeavour to work themselves up, and to draw themselves, and one another forward: we must now draw to a close, and shall therefore but touch the following Observations and pass them in a word.
ye then that are indeed serious, and to whom your short comings are really your Souls burden, would not think it any uncouth, strange or extraordinary thing, to find desire and affection running far before your light and practise, (though ye would endeavour to have them foot-side) a Christians desire may be a dayes Journey (as it were) before himself, as to his attainment: and indeed in some respect it would not be good, ⟨p. 220⟩if it were otherwise, for it is no good signe of progress in Gods way, when the desires of Persons go no further length then their Practise, or when they their Practice falls nothing short of their desires: both in that case are to be much suspected: for even eminently Holy Paul sees himself to be behind, Philip. 3. when he saith, I think not my self perfect, but one thing I do forgetting things that are behind and reaching forth to those things that are before; I press towards the mark: Where he came one Post in his attainment, His desire was ten, in a manner before him: and so is it with those people here spoken of, Come (say they) Let us Join our selves to the Lord; they find themselves to be behind, and endeavour to work themselves up, and to draw themselves, and one another forward: we must now draw to a close, and shall therefore but touch the following Observations and pass them in a word.