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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
A Preparation-Sermon, FOR THE COMMUNION.A Preparation-Sermon, FOR THE COMMVNION.
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 First Use Serves for warning as to this matter; It is easy to get a Token and to come to the Table, but it is not so easy To Eat and Drink worthily, not so easy, to discern the Lords Body and to get Christ himself in the ordinance: and in a word so to go about partaking of the Lords Supper, as ye may have solid quietness of mind in reflecting on it: Is it not a wonder then that the most part do so securely and in a manner even desperately rush upon it, who have it may be lien, some Ten, some Twenty, some thirty years without trouble under this guilt? We would think it a good piece of Preparation, if ye were Seriously afraid to become guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord: want of this holy fear breeds security and keeps from stirring up to duty, and from reflecting on our selves: whereas if the heart ⟨p. 11⟩were stirred and roused with such a fear, there would be greater and more seriously sharpened diligence in all these duties, whereof we heard from the foregoing words, to which this is a strong and pressing motive.
The First Use Serves for warning as to this matter; It is easie to get a Token and to come to the Table, but it is not so easie To Eat and Drink worthily, not so easie, to discern the Lords Body and to get Christ himself in the ordinance: and in a word so to go about partaking of the Lords Supper, as ye may have solid quietness of mind in reflecting on it: Is it not a wonder then that the most part doe so securely and in a manner even desperatly rush upon it, who have it may be lyen, some Ten, some Twenty, some thirty years without trouble under this guilt? We would think it a good piece of Preparation, if ye were Seriously afraid to become guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord: want of this holy fear breeds security and keeps from stirring up to dutie, and from reflecting on our selves: whereas if the heart ⟨p. 11⟩were stirred and rouzed with such a fear, there would be greater and more seiously sharpened diligence in all these duties, whereof we heard from the foregoing words, to which this is a strong and pressing motive.