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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.
Secondly, As for the Terms, they are in short: that Seeing God saith, accept of my Sons Righteousness, and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters: ye would freely accept of it, and take and put Christs Righteousness in the place and Room of self-righteousness which was in the Covenant of works: found your plea before God on nothing that ye can do, but on Christs doing and suffering for you, which now by Faith ye resolve to adhere to, and resign your selves to him without any reservation, to be guided and saved by him, in his own way.
Secondly, As for the Terms, they are in short: that Seeing God saith, accept of my Sons Righteousness, and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters: ye would freely accept of it, and take and put Christs Righteousness in the place and Room of self-righteousness which was in the Covenant of works: found your plea before God on nothing that ye can do, but on Christs doing and suffering for you, which now by Faith ye resolve to adhere to, and resigne your selves to him without any reservation, to be guided and saved by him, in his own way.
As for the Third, How, or from and by what grounds we put you to this: or rather how doth the Lord put us all to it? First, Ye are put to it by his offer in the Gospel: which, in discretion, calls you to give him an answer; he cries, Come unto me, and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David, And doth he not require an answer? And is it not incumbent to us who speak to you in his Name, to crave your answer? We declare to you all, that ye may if ye will, come to be joined with God in Covenant, and may be sure to be accepted of as his, if ye come aright; Now, what say ye to it? either ye must look on this as a cheat or cunningly devised fable, or if ye dare not look on it so, ye must accept of it and make it welcome. Secondly, Ye are put to it, in this respect, that the Lord ⟨p. 266⟩brings you now and then under some conviction of the necessity of your peace with God; something within you saith, that peace with God is worth the having and needful, that this is a good bargain, and that ye have need of it, and there are now and then some raw resolutions to put it to a point; and it may be there is something presently that puts you to it; and if not, so much the more ye would put your selves to it; lest the Kingdom of God be taken from you. Thirdly, Ye are put to it by this same Sacrament; is it possible that ye can take the Communion for a Seal and confirmation, except ye Covenant with God before; If ye will not Covenant, ye prove your selves to be Treacherous dissemblers in going to the Communion, and to be liars to God; when he presents and offers his Covenant: ye profess to take his offer and to close the Covenant with him, but ye refuse, as it were, to take the Pen in your hand, or do throw it away: when he presents to you the Cup of the New Testament, ye drink the Wine and spill the Blood, and so become guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord, when ye despise it, and will not make use of it, nor Covenant with God that ye may get the use of it. And therefore, Fourthly, Know, that ye are put to it presently and peremptorily, & that the Lord will take it for a refusal and for a scorning and despising on your part, if ye do it not; and do ye think it a little matte to have such a guilt lying on your score? what kno ye, if ever God shall offer to Seal a Covenant with yo again?