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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.
I will pardon their iniquities, all bygones, and heal their back-slidings, they shall not get leave to go from me: would ye be pliable and yielding to Gods Covenant; I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts, and a new heart will I give unto them, and will cause them to walk in my Statutes and to do them. Secondly, The Doctrine implies, as it is a full Covenant, or makes the Covenanter ⟨p. 256⟩fully happy: So it makes him sickerly & surely happy: 2 Sam. 25.5. It's a Covenant well ordered in all things and sure, who ever by Faith betake themselves to Christs righteousness, and lay hold on this Covenant, may expect Communion with God as certainly as Adam before the fall had it for it's the same God that promiseth who is as faithful as ever he was: Hence it is called a word tried as silver in a furnace seven times, a pure word that cometh out of the furnace always as massive and weighty as it went in: and the ground of the Covenant being Christs satisfaction, it makes it Sure. Therefore he •s called a tried Corner stone, a sure foundation. Thirdly, It implies, that, as it is a Sure, So it is a compendious and speedy way to happiness & of deliverance to the Sinner, which maketh much for Gods praise: He is a very present help in time of trouble, or a speedy help, Psal. 46. So, Psal. 32.5. I said (saith David) I would confess my transgression, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin: Immediately (as if he had said) upon my confession, without longer delay: and Rom. 4.7. This Psalm is made use of, to demonstrate the Righteousness which is by Faith in Christ.
I will pardon their iniquities, all bygones, and heal their back-slidings, they shall not get leave to go from me: would ye be pliable and yeelding to Gods Covenant; I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts, and a new heart will I give unto them, and will cause them to walk in my Statuts and to do them. Secondly, The Doctrine implies, as it is a full Covenant, or makes the Covenanter ⟨p. 256⟩