B02840:344
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.
Secondly, As for the Properties of this Union by ⟨p. 251⟩Covenant, a few of which we shall only now touch at, not having access to enlarge, as this Subject by it self, would require. 1. It is with the Lord himself, not with any benefit, common gift or Grace or Mercy, these follow the union with himself, the Covenanter becomes one Spirit with him (as is said,) and saith the Apostle, Ephes. 5. we are flesh of his fl sh and b•ne of his bon•. 2. This Union is in and through Christ, by whom it is made up: he being the Temple and Tabernacle or meeting place wherein we meet with God: So that we are not anxiously to enquire, nor curiously to dispute here, how our union with God, and with the Mediator do differ: we unite with God in him, and upon the Grounds of his Redemption, in which respect, our union with God is more Mediate. 3. This Union is very friendly, most firm and indissoluble: It's a wonderful near and sure Union. It is an inexpressible union, and therefore we must here give over speaking further to it, only looking to a word of it, John 17.21, 23. in the 21. vers. saith our Lord: That they all may be one, as thou father art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: It's such an union by the Believers being in God and in the Mediator, as is that, whereby God and the Mediator are one, though no parity is here to be understood, but a resemblance only: and vers. 23. I in them and thou in me, that they may be made Perfect in one: I in them, here the union is most Immediate: and thou in me, there the Union is more mediate, viz. by Gods being in the Mediator dwelling in the ⟨p. 252⟩Believer, and the Believers dwelling in God, (the fullness of the God-head being in the mediator) by his meeting with God through faith in the Mediator: and indeed, were there no more but this, It saith that this Covenant is a good bargain.
Secondly, As for the Properties of this Union by ⟨p. 251⟩Covenant, a few of which we shall only now touch at, not having access to inlarge, as this Subject by it self, would require. 1. It is with the Lord himself, not with any benefit, common gift or Grace or Mercie, these folow the union with himself, the Covenanter becomes one Spirit with him (as is said,) and saith the Apostle,