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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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We need not insist in opening the Words, which are plain; we shall only say these two Words, to make way for Observations; The first whereof shall be, to show that the scope of the Parable is not to hold forth Peoples coming to the Ordinances, or the Sacraments only or mainly; but their coming to Christ Jesus himself and to the fat things in the Ordinances: Many come to the Ordinances who come not to Christ and to the feast: that which is called for here, is a real closing with Christ, and an accepting of him for our Husband, on his own ⟨p. 42⟩terms: The second word is, to show that though the Ordinances be neither the Marriage nor the Feast, Yet it's by the Ordinances that the marriage is furthered and the Feast prepared and made ready? for Faith takes Christ in the word, and strikes hands with him in the Sacrament, when he sayeth in the Word, be thou for me and I will be for thee, Faith saith, content Lord, and when he saith in the Sacrament, Take, Faith sayeth welcome with all my heart, He being there as well as he is in the Word.
We need not insist in opening the Words, which are plain; we shall only say these two Words, to make way for Observations; The first whereof shal be, to shew that the scope of the Parable is not to hold forth Peoples coming to the Ordinances, or the Sacraments only or mainly; but their coming to Christ Jesus himself and to the fat things in the Ordinances: Many come to the Ordinances who come not to Christ and to the feast: that which is called for here, is a real closing with Christ, and an accepting of him for our Husband, on his own ⟨p. 42⟩terms: The second word is, to shew that though the Ordinances be neither the Marriage nor the Feast, Yet it's by the Ordinances that the marriage is furthered and the Feast prepared and made ready? for Faith takes Christ in the word, and strikes hands with him in the Sacrament, when he sayeth in the Word, be thou for me and I will be for thee, Faith saith, content Lord, and when he saith in the Sacrament, Take, Faith sayeth welcome with all my heart, He being there as well as he is in the Word.