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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 fourth Observation is, that Covenanting with God is a very short cut for the quieting, peace, and happiness of a treacherous back sliding sinner: Therefore, when these People here spoken of are, in their Holy heat and warmness, stirred up under the conviction and sense of their guilt: as the short cut to come to peace and a happy condition, they say, Come and let us Join our selves to the Lord in a Perpetual Covenant. It's the accepting of Gods offer, and being content to be his on the account of Christs righteousness, that they Propose to themselves as the ground of their calm, quietness, and happiness. This Observation implies these Three things. First, That Covenanting with God, doth fully make the Covenanter happy, though formerly he hath been a miserable sinner; and O! This is a good bargain, that makes a sinner completely happy: It makes him to say, Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there ⟨p. 255⟩is none upon the earth that I desire beside thee: Psal. 73. I shall name a few Scriptures to show the full happiness of a sinner that enters in this Covenant: The first whereof is, 2 Sam. 23.5. Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant well ordered in all things and sure, and this is all my Salvation, and all my desire: It's mensura Voti, even all that heart can wish: and these words being considered as David the sweet singer of Israel his last words, when he is a dying, they clearly imply a commendation of this Covenant as full for the happiness of a sinner. Another passage is, Revel. 21.7. He that overcometh shall inherit all things: How is that? even thus: I will be his God and he shall be my Son, that is, in substance; I will declare my self to be in Covenant with him, This is the compend of the complete happiness of Glorified Saints in heaven, and the begun happiness of Believers, of Sojourning Saints here on earth, in a less measure and lower degree; for in Heaven God will be all and in all: and is not this a good bargain, & good to sinners? which commends it the more. A Third Place is, Rom. 8. Where it's told us, that nothing can be laid to their Charge, But it's answered in this Covenant. They have a Cautioner to pay their debt, and to strengthen them for their duty: I will (saith he) be their God and they shall be my People: I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me: