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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.
Thirdly, How doth the Sacrament hold out Christ as discernible to us? For answer I shall offer these Four ways. How he may be present to the faith of the Believer in the Sacrament; all which ways he is made discernible: 1 In respect of the institution; for Christ is here represented by the Minister as giving himself; his authority and warrant is here; therefore himself is ⟨p. 28⟩here: This though it be common to all Christs ordinances, yet it belongs in a peculiar way to this ordinance; for in it he is presen• in a special man•er making over himself and his sufferings to us. Secondly, He is made discernible in the Sacrament in as far as it represents him: and though the word hold him out, yet the Sacrament doth so, more fully, clearly and sensibly, by such and such signs, by bread, and bread broken, representing his Body broken by Suffering; by wine, and wine poured out, representing his Blood shed: and by wine distinct from the bread, to show a most true and real death; In which respect it's said, Do this in remembrance of me: and as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup, ye show forth the Lords Death till he come again: Every Sacrament represents Christ, but this represents him in his suffering and dying, and in the end of it: and makes it over to the worthy communicant, Thirdly he is made discernible by this Sacrament in this respect, as it's a seal appended and affixed to the Covenant, serving to ratify and confirm the Promises contained in the Covenant, and so the Bread and wine, considered in reference to the institution, are a real confirmation of our real partaking of the thing signified, and in some respect make Christ really present: as the giving of a sealed Charter of a house to a man, is the giving him the house: or as the giving of infeofment by a bit of earth and stone (being a legal confirmation) is the giving of that land to the man, wherein he is infeoft: because (as I said) it's a legal right to it, and makes it present and discernible to him: even so Christ is ma•e discernible in this ordinance, because we have our right to him which is in the word, in a special manner, confirmed to us in it: for not only doth this (as other Sacraments do) confirm the word and Covenant in ⟨p. 29⟩general, but it hath this peculiar to it, that it confirms Christs making over his dying e to us.