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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.
Fifthly Observe, that in Peoples covenanting with God, their desires and designs will be much sooner Proposed and laid down, then they will be got accomplished and put in execution, or then they will win to satisfy themselves therein: although an Union be betwixt Christ and them, yet they are not satisfied, till they be some-what clear and distinct about it: they are like the Prodigal, who being in another and strange Country, saith first, I will go, then he ariseth: and, I will say to my Father, before he actually speak to his Father himself: calling him Father: Some real acting of Faith Precedes his more distinct ct satisfying acting of it: there is a faith in resolving to believe, before there be a resting of Faith or stayed believing: and yet it's Faith that begets that same resolution: if the Prodigal had not had some Faith of enough in his Fathers house, and of his Fathers affection, he would not have resolved to go home: and ⟨p. 221⟩these people mentioned here would not have set their faces towards Zion; if they had not had some begun stirrings of Faith.
Fifthly Observe, that in Peoples covenanting with God, their desires and designes will be much sooner Proposed and laid down, then they will be got accomplished and put inexecution, or then they will win to satisfie themselves therein: although an Union be betwixt Christ and them, yet they are not satisfied, till they be some-what clear and distinct about it: they are like the Prodigal, who being in another and strange Countrey, saith first, I will go, then he ariseth: and, I will say to my Father, before he actually speak to his Father himself: calling him Father: Some reall acting of Faith Preceeds his more distinct ct satisfieing acting of it: there is a faith in resolving to believe, before there be a resting of Faith or stayed believing: and yet it's Faith that begets that same resolution: if the Prodigal had not had some Faith of enough in his Fathers house, and of his Fathers affection, he would not have resolved to go home: and ⟨p. 221⟩these people mentioned here would not have set their faces towards Zion; if they had not had some begun stirrings of Faith.