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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 Fourth is, That The great mean whereby this design is got prosecuted and this duty pe formed, is adhering and cleaving to God, according to the Covenant. Let us (say they) Join to the Lord in a Covenant; In this respect, adhering to him in it is the mean to keep Covenant; So as we may never fall from it.
The Fourth is, That The great mean whereby this designe is got prosecuted and this duty pe formed, is adhering and cleaving to God, accor•ing to the Covenant. Let us (say they) Join to the Lord in a Covenant; In this respect, adhering to him in it is the mean to keep Covenant; So as we may never fall from it.
The First Observation then is, that The great hazard that a People Covenanting with God a•e in, is to slip and fall from their engagement to him: or There is such a Covenanting with God, as people may soon forget and fall from: a Temporary and unsicker Covenanting, that holds not: A perpetual Covenant never to be forgotten, Supposeth that there is a sort of Covenanting that slips like a knotless thread (to speak so) and abides not. This is sadly verified in the experience of many common professors of Religion, and often even of the Godly themselves in a measure; Even now there will be a bargaining with God, and within a little they will forget it: Peter saith, Though all should forsake thee, yet will not I, And yet within a very little he is found sleeping, and that same night denies and forswears his ⟨p. 276⟩Master: so Deut. 5. the People say, all that the Lord hath Commanded us, we will do, and the Lord saith, they have well said, O that there were such a h•art in them: and yet within the space of little more then forty days, they set up a golden Calf for their God: So Psal. 78.34 35, 36, 37