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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.
And Lastly, As all these other things do Concur to make out the excellency of the Bargain; So doth this in a special manner; that the price is payed, that they have nothing to lay down, but may come and take all freely without money and without price.
And Lastly, As all these other things do Concurr to make out the excellency of the Bargain; So doth this in a special manner; that the price is payed, that they have nothing to lay down, but may come and take all freely without money and without price.
Secondly, For furthering and strengthening the consolation, ye would consider, that the Believer who receives Christ as he is offered in the Gospel, though he be a sinner, yet he hath a most sufficient, excellent and unquestionable security for, and right unto all these good things, that our dying Lord Jesus hath comprehended in his Testament: Believing sinners, what security would ye have? ye have Christs word, I say unto you, &c. Ye have Christs Covenant and Testament; This is the Cup of the New Testament in my Blood; and now the Testament is Confirmed and Sealed, so that neither man nor Angel can annul nor alter it; Our Lords Testament being Sealed it stands legally registered in the Court Books of Heaven; and it stands legal on these terms, that a sinner who takes with his sin, disclaims his own righteousness, and betakes himself to Christs ⟨p. 311⟩Righteousness, putting it in the room of his own, for his Justification before God; may be sure of Christs legacy and of Heaven: as it's sure, that Christ suffered, and Instituted this Sacrament for his Confirmation in the Faith of it; the accepting of Christ, the submitting to his righteousness, the yielding to the Covenant, and closing with him on his own terms, gives him a right to Heaven and all the Riches contained in his Testament. To make out this, as being the very thing of the Comfortable Application of all that hath been said, and of what we are further to say; I shall offer these four grounds; The First whereof is, some clear Scriptures, that hold forth so much, viz. That as really they shall have life who rake Christ and his offer, and close with him; as he really suffered and Satisfied the Justice of God for their sins. The First of these Scriptures is