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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.
SERMON IV.
There are Two main and Mighty uptaking Businesses, to the People of God; The one whereof is, how to win to be in Covenant with God, to be friends and in good terms with him. The other is, how to stand to, and keep Covenant with him, and to live as being made friends with him according to the obligation that lieth on them. This is the ⟨p. 274⟩great design of all preaching, to bring them within the Covenant, who are without: and to make those who are within the Covenant, to walk suitably to it; and as these are never separated on the Lords side: So should they never be Separated on our side therefore these People are brought in here Saying Let us Join our selves to the Lo•d in a Covenant: and not only So, but there are Two words added by them, to show their earnest desire to keep and stand to the Covenant: The one is, A perpetual Covenant: the other, a Covenant that shall not be forgotten, the impression whereof may never wear away: and this we conceive to be their meaning, 1. Because to forget the Covenant, in Scripture, is to deal falsely in it, and to forget the Covenant and to break it, are the same. 2. Because it is (as we take it) opposed to their fear of false dealing in the Covenant: as if they had said, we were once in Covenant with God, but we did deal falsely in it and forget it: Let us now therefore Join our selves in a perpetual Covenant never to be forgotten, Let it be a constant and standing, a lasting, even an everlasting bargain.
THere are Two main and Mighty uptaking Businesses, to the People of God; The one whereof is, how to win to be in Covenant with God, to be friends and in good terms with him. The other is, how to stand to, and keep Covenant with him, and to live as being made friends with him according to the obligation that lyeth on them. This is the ⟨p. 274⟩great designe of all preaching, to bring them within the Covenant, who are without: and to make those who are within the Covenant, to walk suitably to it; and as these are never separated on the Lords side: So should they never be Separated on our side therefore these People are brought in here Saying Let us Join our selves to the Lod in a Covenant: and not only So, but there are Two words added by them, to shew their earnest desire to keep and stand to the Covenant: The one is, A perpetuall Covenant: the other, a Covenant that shall not be forgotten, the impression whereof may never wear away: and this we conceive to be their meaning, 1. Because to forget the Covenant, in Scripture, is to deal falsly in it, and to forget the Covenant and to break it, are the same. 2. Because it is (as we take it) opposed to their fear of false dealing in the Covenant: as if they had said, we were once in Covenant with God, but we did deal falsly in it and forget it: Let us now therefore Join our selves in a perpetual Covenant never to be forgotten, Let it be a constant and standing, a lasting, even an everlasting bargain.