B02840:435
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.
It might be a sweet Communion to you, If yet Christ get a welcome, and it should, I assure you in his Name, make way to a new communion here or in Heaven. But Fourthly, I would a little mote particularly beseech you to consider, that ye must either give Christ a welcome or not, a yea or a naysay, a grant or a denial, for there is no mean or middle: This day shall not pass and go by without a hit or a miss (to speak so) Christ will not knock at your door, and nothing follow or be done: It will either be, that Christ was at such a time (ruzed or) commended, and made offer of, and his People would have none of him: or that the heart opened as the heart of Lydia unto the Lord, and that Salvation came to the Soul, as it did to Zacheus his house: your time is but short and uncertain, Ye know not if ye shall come another Sabbath to hear: some that now speak to you, and some that hear are daily removed: And this bids you make haste to creep in to him quickly without longer delay, while his arms are stretched out to receive and embrace you: There are several sorts among you, that keep at a distance from Christ: but I would have all of you soberly to think, whether ye will say Yea or Nay: There is here what may silence and satisfy any Soul that thwarts with the call of God: Can ye say, that there is any better bargain, any better security, or any heartier call and invitation? Let us come and reason together saith the Lord (Isaiah 1.18, 19) Though your sins be as Crimson, they shall be as white as Snow, though they be red as Scarlet, they shall be as Wool: if ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land, but if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be destroyed. Our Lords Blood is of that efficacy, that it can make Crimson and Scarlet-coloured sins, white, white as Snow and Wool: Why do ye then linger, stick, stand or halt?
It might be a sweet Communion to you, If yet Christ get a welcome, and it should, I assure you in his Name, make way to a new communion here or in Heaven. But Fourthly, I would a litle mote particularly beseech you to consider, that ye must either give Christ a welcome or not, a yea or a naysay, a grant or a denyal, for there is no mean or middle: This day shall not pass and go by without a hit or a miss (to speak so) Christ will not knock at your door, and nothing follow or be done: It will either be, that Christ was at such a time (ruzed or) commended, and made offer of, and his People would have none of him: or that the heart opened as the heart of Lydia unto the Lord, and that Salvation came to the Soul, as it did to Zacheus his house: your time is but short and uncertain, Ye know not if ye shall come another Sabbath to hear: some that now speak to you, and some that hear are dayly removed: And this bids you make haste to creep in to him quickly without longer delay, while his armes are stretched out to receive and embrace you: There are several sorts among you, that keep at a distance from Christ: but I would have all of you soberly to think, whether ye will say Yea or Nay: There is here what may silence and satisfy any Soul that thwarts with the call of God: Can ye say, that there is any better bargain, any better security, or any heartier call and invitation? Let us come and reason together saith the Lord (