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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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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.
A• for the Second, to wit, The Questions to be answered; they are these Four. 1. In what respect is Christ present and discernible in the Sacrament? Secondly to what is he made discernible and Communicable? Thirdly how the Sacrament makes him discernible, and what way it holds him out as discernible to us? Fourthly what may be the reasons why Christ holds out himself, His broken Body, as discernible to us in the Sacrament?