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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 sixth Observation is, that Those who are convinced that they have sinned and would fain be in Covenant with God, should endeavour to have it throughed and made sure, to have it an absolutely closed and ended bargain. This is very clear in this peoples practice, who concernedly say, Come let us Join our selves in a perpetual Covenant never to be forgotten, they think they cannot get it made sure enough, and therefore they join, never to be forgotten, to perpetual, they Judged that it could not Possibly be made too sure: which manifestly saith, that when God giveth an opportunity to enter into or renew a Covenant with him, we should be Holily solicitous, in very good earnest, and greatly concerned to have it made sicker, as the words is, Nehemiah 9. vers. last, We make a sure Covenant and write it, and our Princes Levites and Priests Seal unto it, that word Isaiah 44.5. Is remarkable to this Purpose, One shall say, I am the Lords, and an other shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord; That it might stand (as it were) over his head, as being formally and explicitly engaged in, with heart and hand: and they that know how fickle and inconstant their hearts are: and how prone to ⟨p. 258⟩deal loosely and unfaithfully in Gods Covenant, have good reason to look to this, that all be sure work; that they get not the shell for the Kernel, and go not down to the grave with a lie in their right hand.
The sixth Observation is, that Those who are convinced that they have sinned and would fain be in Covenant with God, should endeavour to have it throughed and made sure, to have it an absolutely closed and ended bargain. This is very clear in this peoples practice, who concernedly say, Come let us Join our selves in a perpetuall Covenant never to be forgotten, they think they cannot get it made sure enough, and therefore they joyn, never to be forgotten, to perpetuall, they Judged that it could not Possibly be made too sure: which manifestly saith, that when God giveth an opportunity to enter into or renew a Covenant with him, we should be Holily solicitous, in very good earnest, and greatly concerned to have it made sicker, as the words is, Nehemiah 9