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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.
Believers, think and think often, that these rags will be rent off us, and we shall be set down on the Throne with Christ in that Raiment of needle work. It is a good token, whe• a person goes from a Communion, from Preaching and Prayer, more Divine and Heavenly, making every Ordinance the step of a stair (as it were) to ascend upward, having a high esteem of Heaven, and a hea• Holily eager and bent on it, content, nay desirous […] be gone, when ever He shall see it meet: and till the• putting on and keeping on the whole armour of God making for one assault of temptation after another ⟨p. 345⟩Heavenly in his whole walk, in his actions words and thoughts. As ye would not, O Believers, interrupt your Communion with God in Christ, study to be Heavenly in your Conversation: for saith the Apostle, Phil. 3.20. Our Conversation is in Heaven, from whence we look for the Saviour: Lay aside (as if be had said) your earthly mindedness, away with that; and be Heavenly in your conversation; for our Conversation is such; and Believers are described to be such as Love Christs appearing. A Fourth Reason May be, that our Lord would hearten & Comfort his Disciples and send them away refreshed; Yea it is, to Root out their unbelief, and to arm them against approaching trials: So then, First. our Lord Jesus Allows Believers to go from the Communion, and proportionally, from every Ordinance rightly come to, cheerful and Comforted; and therefore he leaves them with this word, telling them that they will have hard and sad days; but withal bids them cheer themselves in the assured expectation of a day coming, when He and they shall drink the Wine new in Heaven: Our Lord would have Believers humble, thinking on Death and making ready for it daily; yet be would not have them tortured with the thoughts of it, but cheerful, as having his joy for their strength; though he would not have their joy carnal, but Heavenly: And it is the Token of a right Communicant and of a good hearer of the word, when a Person goes away from it more Spiritually cheered and more Heavenly minded. Secondly, There is nothing that can be more heartsome, cheering and refreshing to the Believer, then the lively hope of Communion and of a seat on the Throne, in Heaven with Christ; and it is the mark and Character of a believer, to have no lower design. Alas!