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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.
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?
First, then, in what respect is Christ present and discernible in the Sacrament? We answer, first, not simply considered as he is the Son of God, nor in respect of any benefi• from him as mediator, neither simply as Redeemer; But he is holden out as incarnate, and so this Sacrament differs from the Jews Passover, which held him out as to come, while this holds him out as come. Secondly, it holds him out not only as become man, but as suffering, as having his Body broken. Thirdly He is made discernible in respect of the end for which He suffered, and had his Body broken and his ⟨p. 26⟩Blood shed; This is (sayeth he) my Body which is broken for you, This cup is the New Testament in my Blood shed for the remission of the sins of many: to wit, of all the Elect; It holds out Christ Mediator, God-man suffering for us. Fourthly, It holds him out as Communicable and in capacity to be participate of, by us; Therefore its called the Communion of His body. Chap. 10.16. To tell us that we may be united to him, and made to share of him; and we are bidden Take and Eat and all to drink of it: These last two look to the Covenant and hold out the Sacrament in reference to it, and how our Lord Jesus, First by his sufferings was to purchase a People to himself, and Secondly that he was to be Communicable to his People; therefore the Cup is called the New Covenant in his Blood; The Cup and the Covenant go together: For though we may consider Christ without the Sacrament; yet we cannot so well consider the Sacrament without Christ and the Covenant.
First, then, in what respect is Christ present and discernible in the Sacrament? We answer, first, not simply considered as he is the Son of God, nor in respect of any benefi from him as mediaor, neither simply as Redeemer; But he is holden out as incarnat, and so this Sacrament differs from the Jews Passover, which held him out as to come, while this holds him out as come. Secondly, it holds him out not only as become man, but as suffering, as having his Body broken. Thirdly He is made discernible in respect of the end for which He suffered, and had his Body broken and his