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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
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But it's like, some will in the Third place. Object and say, Alas, I am very indisposed to come. For Answer I shall grant, it may indeed be true: but yet consider who are invited, it's the Poor, Blind, Halt, Maimed, Wretched and Miserable: O what unfitness have such! and yet none of them are excepted against: I would have none to be presumptuous and vain: but if indeed ye would fain come, ye cannot come so indisposed, ⟨p. 327⟩as the bargain will on that account be cast: It will not be the want of a Disposition that shall cast it, else the Cripple and Blind, and Luke warm Laodiceans had never been invited: whether is a suitable disposition of your own making or of Christs? Sure it's of his: and can ye expect ought from him without coming to him, or Believing in him? But Fourthly, Some will Object and say, Alas I have often come and broken away again, How can I then Believe that I am invited? For Answer, I would desire you to Consider, whether that Objection tends, Even to question the truth of the Gospel; our Lord Jesus saith, He came to save sinners, and ye say I would fain know if that be true or not; if ye be Poor, Blind, Miserable, Naked, &c. And have need, He commands us to invite and call such; and it's the way of unbelief to make them scare at Christ and stand furthest a back from him, who have most need to draw near to him; if ye have come and broken afterward, Come again: and where a knot hath not holden, cast a new one: But alas! There is a sort of Careless Atheists and secure Hypocrites, whom this Gospel strikes dead: and carnal worldlings, who have no serious thoughts of what is coming: I would pose such, and ask you, Care ye for your Souls? care ye for Remission of sins? Or care ye for the enjoying of God? If ye do, then sure, it is unspeakably of your concernment to consider and close with the call & offer of this Gospel: And if there be any of you, that have loved your Idols, and after them will go, I would desire you in soberness to say to it, will ye prefer any Idol to Christ, the Creature to the Creator, the temporal sinful being of your body to the Eternal well-being of both Soul and Body? If ye will, then be sure, that this Conviction, in your Judgement and Conscience, will go along with ⟨p. 328⟩such a cursed Resolution, that Christ and Heaven were the absolutely best Bargain.
But it's like, some will in the Third place. Object and say, Alace, I am very indisposed to come. For Answer I shall grant, it may indeed be true: but yet consider who are invited, it's the Poor, Blind, Halt, Maimed, Wretched and Miserable: O what unfitness have such! and yet none of them are excepted against: I would have none to be presumptuous and vain: but if indeed ye would fain come, ye cannot come so indisposed,