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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.
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, Gen. 29.34. Now shall my Husband be joined to me; therefore she called his name Levi, which flows from this root, Added or Joined, In prosecuting this point a little, we would speak shortly, 1. To the nature of this Union. 2. To the properties of it. First, As to it's Nature, we would consider, that there is. 1. A legal union, wherein by contract and bond there is a transferring of the interest of one Party to another; which is here; for God becomes the sinners God, and the sinner becomes Gods own, as his portion and Property; Even as in marriage, the Husband ⟨p. 250⟩is the wives, and the wife is the Husbands, and the Relation stands, though they should be in Several Kingdoms. 2. There is a Mystical union, which is spiritual and more Mysterious, whereby God becometh one with Covenanting sinners, and they become one with him; God by his Spirit dwelling in the Covenanter, and the Covenanter dwelling by faith in God: which floweth from the former mutually transferred right or legal union, and followeth on it: In which respect it's said, 1 Cor. 6 17. He that is Joined to the Lord is one spirit; He is Gods Temple, and God by his Spirit dwells in him: by this one spy it, is meant a Spiritual conjunction, Union or Communion whereby God takes hold really of the Soul by his Spirit, and the Soul takes a real hold of God by Faith: they do mutually embrace each other, as the Husband doth the wife by virtue of their Union. 3. This Union implieth a nearness, a friendliness, an intimacy and familiarity, and it is opposed to distance and estrangement from God: The Covenant really entered into, is like a bond to keep the believer near God, glued (as it were) and straitly joined to him: or it is a cementing with God, to speak so: By this Covenant God and sinners are made near and knit to one another and kept from ever Separating: