B02840:354
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
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And therefore in the Second Place we tell you, that the great God is content to Covenant with poor, feckless and sinful Creatures, whereat ye may wonder, and say, Is it so in very deed that God will dwell with men on earth? Will he indeed Covenant with men, with sinful men, with Treacherous dealing men, with backsliders? Yea we tell you, that it is so; he is content to be your God, and that ye possess all things in him, content to pardon you all your sins, to give you Grace and Glory, even every good thing: to enter you heirs to a Kingdom, and on good and easy terms: to do it freely without Money, and without Price, If ye be but indeed content to accept of His offer on his easy and very reasonable terms: and may not your very hearts laugh within you at the hearing of the glad tidings of this Covenant, and that God is yet content to make it up with you? O how sappy and Massive is this! and that is a very sweet word to this Purpose which we have, Psal. •7 6. God, even our own God shall bless us, which may make the Believer smile: This relation of our own maketh the blessing double: and it flows from this formal, a• least, real Covenanting and union with God, and the Believer hath a right to this and all things: He hath here an offer and another sort of right, then he hath to his house and land or cloths, it's aright to God, that ⟨p. 261⟩giveth a right to these things, I mean a Spiritual right: for we speak not now of that which is civill: let us, therefore, stay our selves and wonder, and be stirred and affected with it, that the infinite and all-sufficient God is content to make this good bargain, and even now to make it with us Sinners, even with insignificant and unworthy us.
And therefore in the Second Place we tell you, that the great God is content to Covenant with poor, fectless and sinfull C•eatures, whereat ye may wonder, and say, Is it so in very deed that God will dwell with men on earth? Will he indeed Covenant with men, with sinfull men, with Treacherous dealing men, with backsliders? Yea we tell you, that it is so; he is content to be your God, and that ye possess all things in him, content to pardon you all your sins, to give you Grace and Glory, even every good thing: to enter you heirs to a Kingdome, and on good and easie terms: to do it freely without Money, and without Price, If ye be but indeed content to accept of His offer on his easie and very reasonable terms: and may not your very hearts laugh within you at the hearing of the glad tydings of this Covenant, and that God is yet content to make it up with you? O how sappie and Massie is this! and that is a very sweet word to this Purpose which we have, Psal. 7 6. God, even our own God shall bless us, which may make the Believer smile: This relation of our own maketh the blessing double: and it flows from this formal, a least, real Covenanting and union with God, and the Believer hath a right to this and all things: He hath here an offer and another sort of right, then he hath to his house and land or cloths, it's aright to God, that