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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
A Preparation-Sermon, FOR THE COMMUNION.A Preparation-Sermon, FOR THE COMMVNION.
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.
whereby I mean not only the clearness of his making over himself for in this ordinance there is the clearest view of a slain Saviour, and of Covenanting wi•h God; and often the most comfortable manifestations of Love go alongst with it, for which cause its called eminently the Communion; But also that there is here a clear glance of Heaven upon earth, Jesus Christ and his People mixing (to speak so) and being familiar together; he condescending not only to keep company with them, but to be their food and refreshment: and he giving them not only the word to their faith, but himself (as it were) to their sense: in so far as the mean whereby He communica eth himself is more sensible: It is by his Spirit that the mean is made effectual: and there is not only a fixedness of Faith on ou• Part but a sort of Divineness in the ordinance it self: the very First fruits of Heaven being communicate, as it were, to the very senses of the Believer: I say unto you, (says the Lord, Matth. 26 29.) I will not Drink henceforth of the Fruit of the Vine, until that day, I Drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdom; where he seems to point out a more special way of keeping communion with his people in this Ordinance, in resemblance to that which he will have with them in heaven: There being here a more special union and communion betwixt the head and members sealed up, a type of that which is to be in Heaven, A taste whereof is sometimes given in this ordinance of the Communion: hence, its not only called the Communion, as in the foregoing Chapter, but the communion of the Body and Blood of Christ, and the Table of the Lord.
whereby I mean not only the clearness of his making over himself for in this ordinance there is the clearest view of a slain Saviour, and of Covenanting wi•h God; and often the most comfortable manifestations of Love go alongst with it, for which cause its called eminently the Communion; But also that there is here a clear glance of Heaven upon earth, Jesus Christ and his People mixing (to speak so) and being familiar together; he condescending not only to keep company with them, but to be their food and refreshment: and he giving them not only the word to their faith, but himself (as it were) to their sense: in so far as the mean whereby He communica eth himself is more sensible: It is by his Spirit that the mean is made effectual: and there is not only a fixedness of Faith on ou Part but a sort of Divineness in the ordinance it self: the very First fruits of Heaven being communicat, as it were, to the very senses of the Believer: I say unto you, (sayes the Lord,