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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.
Men will be got convinced of gross out-breaking evils; but of this evil, the most earthly minded worms cannot be gotten convinced: nay even good people are hardly got convinced of it: but ye are not in the less hazard of it: and we wot well, it's a plague in the Generation that we live in, and hath much defaced Religion as to it's beauty, in the face of the Conversation of many: Ah! how much are they, in this, conformed to the word? And how Lamentably little behave they like Pilgrims and Strangers in it, as the Saints did of old?
Men will be got convinced of gross out-breaking evils; but of this evil, the most earthly minded wormes cannot be gotten convinced: nay even good people are hardly got convinced of it: but ye are not in the less hazard of it: and we wot well, it's a plague in the Generation that we live in, and hath much defaced Religion as to it's beauty, in the face of the Conversation of many: Ah! how much are they, in this, conformed to the word? And how Lamentably litle behave they like Pilgrims and Strangers in it, as the Saints did of old?
As A Second Use of this point, We have ground here to Commend to you the study of a Soul-fixing & fastening condition: as ye would not make an unsure bargain with God, endeavour to have this softness and melting of heart: This thing is that which makes a man to sit ⟨p. 241⟩alone and to keep silence before God, Lam. 3.27. And so to be in a posture of meeting and covenanting with him: such of you as know nothing of this, and are not afraid of being hard, cold and dead at such an occasion, are in eminent hazard of losing a good bargain: and woe to Security and hardness, that hath that as the fruit of it: and in the by we may say that there is a Woe abiding many of you, who have no Serious thoughts of this frame, and especially at such a time. Therefore let me Exhort you to compose your selves, as having to do with God, and as having Gods love and favour, and his hatred and wrath laid together in the balance, and as having life and death set before you, and seriously to seek after such a soft and tender frame of Soul that fits for Covenanting, for renewing the Covenant, and for comfortable communicating.