B02840:389
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.
Doubtless such will find that they have played the fools egregiously in Committing these two great evils, in forsaking God the Fountain of living waters, and in digging to themselves Cisterns, even broken Cisterns that could hold no water: O! If ye could Imagine, what ye will think of it ere long, when ye will not get a drop of water to cool your tongue, because ye said by your practice, that God was not worth the having, And to the Almighty, depart from us, we will have none of thee, neither will we have the knowledge of thy ways. 4. Much want of peace and much anxiety will follow upon it, even the penitent and converting People of God, Jer. 3.20, 21. have much bitterness on this account of Treacherous dealing in Gods Covenant: a voice of weeping and Lamentation is heard on the mountains, the Children of Israel saying, we have perverted our way, we have forsaken the Lord our God, how much more bitterness of another nature, how much more Smart, vexation, Anguish, Agony, and gnawing of Conscience shall impenitent sinners have, on account of their false and Perfidious dealing in Gods Covenant? This will make the hearts of many to quake and tremble for terror: If ye get Repentance, it will be a heart-break to you; and ⟨p. 288⟩if ye get not repentance, much heart less heart-break and crushing is abiding you in the end for evermore; and O what trembling of heart, failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind may be betwixt and that! 5 Much wrath will follow on it in the day of the Lord, if it be continued in; and judge ye within your selves if there be so many aggravations of, or so many threatenings against any sin, as of and against unfaithful, and false dealing in Gods Covenant; this sin hath made the Jews to lye, these Sixteen hundred years and above, Scattered among all Nations as a curse: Therefore make it your great design and business •ow, to be Faithful to God, and to have the Covenant with him, A perpetual Covenant, never to be forgotten.
Doubtless such will find that they have played the fools egregiously in Committing these two great evils, in forsaking God the Fountain of living waters, and in digging to themselves Cisterns, even broken Cisterns that could hold no water: O! If ye could Imagine, what ye will think of it ere long, when ye will not get a drop of watter to cool your tongue, because ye said by your practice, that God was not worth the having, And to the Almighty, depart from us, we will have none of thee, neithr will we have the knowledge of thy ways. 4. Much want of peace and much anxietie will follow upon it, even the penitent and converting People of God,