B02840:404
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.
Fourthly, Ye would consider this Sacrament, as it seals directly our warrant to receive Christ and his benefits, or as it seals our Application of Christ and his benefits, for it may be useful for both, and is actually so to believers: In the First respect we offer to you a good security for your Salvation, on condition of your receiving Christ; But in the Second Respect the security is sealed simply, as baving Gods seal appended to it, to all who have received him. Thus the tree of life was a seal of the Covenant of life by works to Adam, if be stood, but it was not a confirmation that he should have life by the Covenant, except he fulfilled that which was called for in it: So Circumcision was a Seal of the righteousness of Faith to Ishmael and other visible Church Members, as well as to Isaac, in the First Sense, that is, that the security was good; But to Isaac and Believers, It was not only a Seal or a Confirmation that the security was good; and sufficient in it self; but a Seal of Confirmation, that it should be good to them: Therefore in coming to partake of the Sacrament, We would premit alway our closing with Christ; And then we have not only Gods word and Oath, but also the Sacrament for his Seal of Confirmation of the Covenant. In a word, Christ doth offer here to all a Pledge that he will make good the Covenant; And it's the great guilt of many Professors of the Gospel, that they close not with him in his offer, so as to make use of it: Which makes them guilty of the body and Blood of the Lord: which they neither would nor could he guilty of, if this were not in their offer: but it's more to Believers, who have by Faith closed with Christ; this Seal of the Covenant accreweth to their security, who have taken Gods word and rested on it; The Believer then, is not only sure in ⟨p. 302⟩this respect that he hath a good warrant to trust and lea•• to, that is, a Sealed Covenant; but also that it will no• fail him in Particular, So that he may say, I know i• whom I have believed: And we would not divide thes• things that God hath so wisely and well conjoined, viz Closing with Christ and the Covenant in the right way according to the terms thereof; and taking this Se• of confirmation of it.