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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
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that a Covenant interest, self-denial, Mortification and the like, take them up the less: Many of you are at more labour and Pain to hold up a Name, then to mortify such a lust, as is a Self-seeking humour, or to have matters tho ough and clear betwixt God and you. Thirdly, They made mo•e and greater account of Communion with God then we do, seeking after it as a thing they were taken up with, which now, Alas! is much neglected: b•cau e we bear that our Salvation doth not depend simply on intimate and familiar fellowship with God, we are the less careful and solicitous about it; whereas of old, the want of it made them Sick of Love, as the Spouse is, Cant. 5 And what longing, fainting and out-crying is there for it, Psal. 42? It was a Prison to them to be in a Palace wanting Gods Company: This is a main thing that softens peoples hearts, even to have the Lord manifesting himself to have the light of his Countenance lifted up, and the beams of his love and good will shining warm on us; too much seeking of great things for our selves, fo• g andure or greatness in the world, in making godliness some way to be gain and counting gain (as it were) to be Godliness: Alas! it is not much our care to have victory over the World, and that it may have li•le of our heart and Christ much of it: It's not the design that we drive with suitable vigour, even to be Heavenly minded and to brook a soft ⟨p. 240⟩heart: Love not the World (saith the Apostle, 1 John 2.15.) Nor the things of the World, for whoso loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him: They so far overcame the world, that they suffered joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing in themselves, they had a better and an enduring substance in heaven, as it is Heb. 10.34. But the wicked, and men of the world, having what heart can wish, even waters of a full cup are wrung out to them; Gods People turn in thither, and will needs essay and try the comforts of a present world, what satisfaction they can yield them, as we may see Solomon did, to his great prejudice: for the things of the world in a great measure got the upper hand of him, and that after the Lord had appeared to him twice: It were good and much to be wished that many of you did espy this evil in your selves: the Scripture insists much in it, as that which mens hearts are mainly carried out after: and yet we can get none almost convinced of it: