B02840:341
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.
the person with • very heart Subscribing the Contract; which, 2 Chro ⟨p. 249⟩30 8. is called a yielding or giving the hand to God. He cometh with stretched out arms in the Gospel, and saith, Man or woman, who findest thy self lost, close with me in my Son Christ, and thou shalt be saved; and our consenting is, our hearts catching hold of that word and yielding to him, as one striking hands with another, with whom he hath before been at odds & variance; in sign of his being content and satisfied to be reconciled to him, and of his being so in very deed.
the person with • very heart Subscribing the Contract; which, 2 Chr• ⟨p. 249⟩30 8. is called a yeelding or giving the hand to God. He cometh with stretched out armes in the Gospel, and saith, Man or woman, who findest thy self lost, close with me in my Son Christ, and thou shalt be saved; and our consenting is, our hearts catching hold of that word and yeelding to him, as one striking hands with another, with whom he hath before been at odds & variance; in signe of his being content and satisfied to be reconciled to him, and of his being so in very deed.
The Second Observation is, That This covenanting wi•h God hath with it or in it a near union and Conjunction with the Lord. Let us (say they) Join our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant; the word •o ning hath in it a special Emphasis, being such as is used to set out the conjunction that is betwixt the Husband and Wife; for this cause (saith the Lord) shall a man leave Father and Mother and cleave to his wife, and so the wife cleaveth to her husband; Thus the word is,