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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.
The Fifth Observation was, that Christ the Bridegroom & his Father are very willing to have the match made up and the marriage completed: therefore doth he send forth his servants with a strict commission, not only to tell sinners that all things ready, but to bid them come to the Marriage: yea he not only wills them to tell that all things are ready, and to invite, but to Compel them (as Luke hath it Chap. 14.23.) to come in: to stir them up and press them to it: to threaten them if they come not, and to accept no refusal or na•-say: the evidences of his willingness are many, which I will not now insist upon: as that he hath made the feast, and such a feast, and prepared so for it, and given himself to bring it about, and keeps up the offer and Proclamation of the Marriage, even after it is slighted: all these and many moe tell plainly that the Father and Son are most heartily willing: therefore they expostulate when this Marriage is refused, O! Jerusalem, Jerusalem how often would I have gathered you, but you would not: Matth. 23. O! Jerusalem, Jerusalem, if thou even thou, hadst known in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace; Luk 19. All these sad complaints, that Israel would not hearken to his voice, and his ⟨p. 53⟩people would have n ne of him. Psal. 81 7. That he came to his own and his own received him not Joh. 1.11. And that they will not come to him that they might have life. Joh. 5.40. make out his willingness abundantly and undeniably.
The Fifth Observation was, that Christ the Bridegroom & his Father are very willing to have the match made up and the marriage compleated: therefore doth he send forth his servants with a strict commission, not only to tell sinners that all things ready, but to bid them come to the Marriage: yea he not only wills them to tell that all things are ready, and to invite, but to Compel them (as Luke hath it Chap. 14.23.) to come in: to stirr them up and press them to it: to threaten them if they come not, and to accept no refusal or na•-say: the evidences of his willingness are many, which I will not now insist upon: as that he hath made the feast, and such a feast, and prepared so for it, and given himself to bring it about, and keeps up the offer and Proclamation of the Marriage, even after it is slighted: all these and many moe tell plainly that the Father and Son are most heartily willing: therefore they expostulat when this Marriage is refused, O! Jerusalem, Jerusalem how often would I have gathered you, but you would not: