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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.
All these Observations are very obvious in the Words; and if the Lord would Graciously please to help us to speak and you to hear: as they are no unpertinent to our Present Purpose, So they might be made very edifying, strengthening, refreshing and comfortable to us.
We shall in the second Place, a little more particularly clear and confirm every one of them. The First was, that, There is a Marriage betwixt Christ and souls held forth and made offer of in this Gospel. We take this for granted: for here is the Kings Son, and some bidden to his marriage, and those that are bidden are not worthy: they are all Professors & members of the visible Church, the scope of the Parable being to show, that the offer of this Marriage was first made to the Jews, and again renewed to them, and then from them it came to the Gentiles, I shall in passing give you a little hint of the nature of this Marriage in these four: 1. There is by this Gospel a real union made up betwixt Christ and the souls of Believers; Which union is not with the Ordinances, nor with sense, nor with the Benefits which flow from Christ; but with Christ himself Primarily and Principally, and it is so near a •ye and very close, that it is preferred unto and goeth beyond the union that is betwixt the Husband and Wife: Ephes. 5.30. We are (says the Apostle) Members of his Body, of his Flesh, and of his bones, Where alluding to that union betwixt Husband and Wife, he not only makes the union real, but makes the one much straiter then the ⟨p. 44⟩other. Secondly the nature of this union is such, that it is Mutual; the Bridegroom hath in a manne• (to speak so, with reverence of his Majesty) no Power ove• himself, when he is Married un•o the Bride; and the Bride hath no Power over her self, but the Bridegroom: So that here there is a sort of mutual upgiving of the Bridegroom to the Bride, and of the Bride to the Bridegroom; according to those wonderfully condescending words,