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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.
First then, we would distinguish betwixt these two viz: Looking on the Sacrament as strictly taken, and as contradistinguished from the word; and looking on it as more complexly taken, as including the word; It is in the last sense that we consider the Sacrament here, viz: as taking in, 1. Christ signified and represented by the elements, 2 The word and Covenant to which the Sacrament as a Seal is appended; Therefore the cup is called The Cup of the New Testament: 3. The seal of the Sacrament it self appended to the word and Covenant.
2. We would distinguish betwixt Christs broken ⟨p. 25⟩Body considered as discernible to our understanding only; and the same considered as it is discernible to our very senses, or as it is apprehensible, when by feeling we may grip it as it were; and not only look to it, but take hol• of it: (how this is, shall be more Particularly explained and cleared afterward for preventing of mistakes,) it is in this last sense that we understand discernible here, not excluding the former; so that Christs broken body in the Sacrament is not only made discernible to the understanding of the right communicant, but he is made Communicable and apprehensible, and there is an union with him attainable in that Ordinance; and what we said before proves this: he holds out His Body to be received, And He is received in it.
2. We would distinguish betwixt Christs broken ⟨p. 25⟩Body considered as discernible to our understanding only; and the same considered as it is discernible to our very senses, or as it is apprehensible, when by feeling we may grip it as it were; and not only look to it, but take hol• of it: (how this is, shal be more Particularly explained and cleared afterward for preventing of mistakes,) it is in this last sense that we understand discernible here, not excluding the former; so that Christs broken body in the Sacrament is not only made discernible to the understanding of the right communicant, but he is made Communicable and apprehensible, and there is an union with him attainable in that Ordinance; and what we said before proves this: he holds out His Body to be received, And He is received in it.