B02840:319
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.
That […] serious man who puts himself to that Comprehensive and up-taking exercise in earnest, who proves himself if he be in the Faith; whose heart smites him that h• hath not taken as much time in Secret, as he hath don• in coming to a preaching: It may be, many have com• four or five miles to a preparation Sermon, who y• never Seriously once looked within themselves to […] how matters stood betwixt God and them: O sad, Lamentable and Soul-ruining neglect!
That 〈…〉 serious man who puts himself to that Comprehensive and up-taking exercise in earnest, who proves himself if he be in the Faith; whose heart smites him that h• hath not taken as much time in Secret, as he hath don• in coming to a preaching: It may be, many have com• four or five miles to a preparation Sermon, who y• never Seriously once looked within themselves to 〈…〉 how matters stood betwixt God and them: O sad, Lamentable and Soul-ruining neglect!
The Third Use Serves for Exhortation: and let m• Exhort, Beseech, and Obtest you, to study to be in goo• earnest in this business; Believe it, the business of Covenanting with God, so as, from this time forth, ye may have it made sure and clear that ye are Gods and that God is yours, is a thing of greatest Concernment: ⟨p. 233⟩of infinitely greater, then if Kings and such as are called Pro•ectors were sending Ambassadors to treat with you about making you great in the World. To press this a little, let me Ask you, in the First place, what think ye will come of it, if the Covenant be not made sicker betwixt God and you? Ye will most certainly live and lie still, yea even die strangers to God, liable to his curse and wrath ready to be inflicted on you: O lay this to heart, if ye Believe that God will call you all to a reckoning, and that he will say to such of you as ae not in Covenant with him, Depart from me, I never knew you; Yea, suppose there were not such great ground of fear as to that, as indeed there is: can ye promise to your selves Gods hearing any of your Prayers, the performance of any Promise, or the accepting of any duty off your hand as service to him, till ye be in Covenant with the Lord? And think ye nothing or but little of this? Secondly, Consider the great prejudice that follows on not Covenanting with God, and that will attend many in the visible Church; Many (saith the Lord,