B02840:322
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
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The Second general Observation is this, that a soft, tender and melting heart is a good and suitable frame for Covenanting with God: would ye then know, what is a fit frame for Covenanting with God? It's even this, a heart melting frame; they shall go weeping as they go; they have much seriousness, inward stir and warmness of heart, and that makes it to me•t, and (as i• were) flow down before the Lord; this is according to what we have, Zech. 12.10. I will (saith the Lord) Pour upon the house of David, and on the inhabitance of Jerusalem, the Spirit of Grace and supplications, and they shall look to him whom they have pierced, and shall mourn and be in bitterness as one is for h•s first born: even when they are coming home, and asking the way to Zion with their faces thither ward, and about to enter in Covenant, they are mourning; Hence, Isaiah. 44.3, 4, 5. And elsewhere, even almost where ever entering into, or renewing of the Covenant with God is spoken of, the out-pouring of the Spirit is spoken of also; a pouring water on him that is thirsty and floods of the dry ground: bringing Rivers out of Rocks, &c. for preparing a People for the Lord. And this will be the more clear, if we consider, that softness and melting of heart gives a man a right impression of himself, and a right impression of God and of his free Grace and goodness; and it makes the man to become folding, tractable, Pliant and yielding to God, and also makes way for much Spiritual sense and comfort, and for Gods refreshful manifesting of himself to the Soul that is so pliable ⟨p. 236⟩and tender: thus the Lord saith, Hos. 2.14. I will allure her and bring her to the wilderness and speak comfortably to her, or to her heart, as the word is; Alluring speaks pliableness, & that hath Gods Comfortable speaking to the heart following on it.
The Second general Observation is this, that a soft, tender and melting heart is a good and suitable frame for Covenanting with God: would ye then know, what is a fit frame for Covenanting with God? It's even this, a heart melting frame; they shall go weeping as they go; they have much seriousness, inward stir and warmness of heart, and that makes it to met, and (as i were) flow down before the Lord; this is according to what we have,