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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.
And Thirdly, Consider this, •hat ye have naturally such hearts as others have, that a•e ready to beguile you, and to back slide and slip ou• from God; and are not those beguiles and disappointments of others written for our warning and advertisements? And if any of you should say, we hope there is no such ground of fear as to us. That's but a bewraying of your Ignorance and senselessness; for those who are best acquainted with their own hearts will tell you, tha• it is a ticklish and difficult business to deal truly and throughly with God: Do ye not know, that many take a counterfeit for grace? And were ye no• hea•ing lately, that many Hypocrites have personated almost (if there be need to say, almost) every Grace; surely many o• you will find it true one day, that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: and that ye hav• erred and played the fools egregiously, and in nothing mo•e then in trusting your own hearts: for saith the wise man, He that trusts his own heart is a fool. Fourthly, Consider, that it is now come to a Nick and pinc• with you, that either ye must close the Covenant wi•h God, or put your selves farther under his Curse, and eat and drink damnation to your selves: because ye have mis-kent Gods Covenant, and slighted Covenanting with him, and so have come as enemies to his Table, without making your friend-ship with him: we declare to you, that e•e the morrow at this time many of yo• will either have a bit or a Miss of the greatest bargain a d of the greatest concernment that ever was made betwixt parties: and although ye should not eternally incapacitate your selves for Covenanting with God, which many may do, and bring themselves under such a sad ⟨p. 235⟩sentence, that they shall never henceforth be quickened nor awaked any more: yet ye may make your bands stronger, and may make the business of your Covenanting with God far more difficult to your selves then now it might be.