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B02840	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.	Durham, James, 1622-1658.	1685 (1685)	Wing D2827; ESTC R171877	237,276	370

Depart from me I never knew you Yea suppose there were not such great ground of fear as to that as indeed there is can ye promise to your selves Gods hearing any of your Prayers the performance of any Promise or the accepting of any duty off your hand as service to him till ye be in Covenant with the Lord And think ye nothing or but litle of this Secondly Consider the great prejudice that follows on not Covenanting with God and that will attend many in the visible Church Many saith the Lord Luke 13. Will seek to enter who shall not be able The solid Faith of this would make many Congregations to tremble for it 's not only many profane persons but many of them that countenance Ordinances yea many of them that have preached and prayed to the Edification of others and many of them who have heard Christ preach in their streets and who have countenanced faithfull Ministers and furthered the work of God and who have had indignation at others that did not so who will not be able to enter this word with that other which we have Psal 78.34 where there is such a seeming seriousness and personating of many Graces of the Spirit and yet nevertheless it is but a flattering of God with the mouth and a lying to him with the tongue which is a very rife and common thing amongst professos amongst such as profess Covenanting with God should put us in fear And Thirdly Consider this ●hat ye have naturally such hearts as others have that a●e ready to beguile you and to back slide and slip ou● from God and are not those beguiles and disappointments of others written for our warning and advertisments And if any of you should say we hope there is no such ground of fear as to us That 's but a bewraying of your Ignorance and senselesness for those who are best acquainted with their own hearts will tell you tha● it is a ticklish and di●ficult business to deal truly and throughly with God Do ye not know that many take a counterfeit for grace And were ye no● hea●ing lately that many Hypocrites have personated almost if there be need to say almost every Grace surely many o● you will find it true one day that the heart is deceitfull above all things and desperatly wicked and that ye hav● etred and played the fools egregiously and in nothing mo●e then in trusting your own hearts for saith the wise man He that trusts his own heart is a fool Fourthly Consider that it is now come to a Nick and pinc● with you that either ye must close the Covenant wi●h God or put your selves farther under his Curse and eat and dri●k damnation to your selves because ye have mis-kent Gods Covenant and sligh●ed Covenanting with him and so have come as enemies to his Table without making your friend-ship with him we declare to you that e●e the morrow at this time many of yo● will ei●her have a bit or a Miss of the greatest bargain a d of the greatest concernment that ever was made betwixt parties and although ye should not eternally incapacitate your selves for Covenanting with God which many may do and bring themselves under such a sad sentence that they shall never hencefo●th be quickened nor awaked any more yet ye may make your bands stronger and may make the business of your Covenanting with God far more difficult to your selves then now it might be The Second general Observation is this that a soft tender and melting heart is a good and suitable frame for Covenanting with God would ye then know what is a fit frame for Covenanting with God It 's even this a heart melting frame they shall go weeping as they go they have much seriousness inward stir and warmness of heart and that makes it to me●t and as i● were flow down before the Lord this is according to what we have Zech. 12.10 I will saith the Lord Pour upon the house of David and on the inhabitance of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and supplications and they shall look to him whom they have pierced and shall mourn and be in bitterness as one is for h●s first born even when they are coming home and asking the way to Zion with their faces thither ward and about to enter in Covenant they are mourning Hence Isaiah 44.3 4 5. And elsewhere even almost where ever entring into or renewing of the Covenant with God is spoken of the out-pouring of the Spirit is spoken of also a pouring water on him that is thirstie and flouds of the dry ground bringing Rivers out of Rocks c. for preparing a People for the Lord. And this will be the more clear if we consider that softness and melting of heart gives a man a right imp●ession of himself and a right impression of God and of his free Grace and goodness and it makes the man to become folding tractable Pliant and yeelding to God and also makes way for much Spiritual sense and comfort and for Gods ref●eshfull manifesting of himself to the Soul that is so pliable and tender thus the Lord saith Hos 2.14 I will allure her and bring her to the wilderness and speak comfortably to her or to her heart as the word is Alluring speaks pliableness that hath Gods Comfortable speaking to the heart following on it The First Use of this point serves to give you another Mark for Triall if things be right and in good case with you for Covenanting with God and as the upshot of all to commend such a desirable frame as thi● to you would ye know the● further what is a right frame for Covenanting with God Here it is even to have a heart melting within to have a soft tender and mournfull disposition of Soul and would ye know what this is We think that from the words it may be gathered to consist in these five or six things that concurre to it First There are some pricking challenges for sin and wrongs done to God they humbly acknowledge take with and are made sensible of these Secondly There is some missing and sensibleness of the want of Gods presence and of the want of Communion and Fellowship with him ●hey know not well where he is but they are a king after him Thirdly There is an ardent affection and serious desire to be at him and in Covenant with him a heart filled with love to God whereby it is softened and made to flow down as wax by the fire is melted and the hardest iron made soft Fourthly There is a Holy fear and carefulness whereby the heart is kept from growing cold and indifferent as to this condition and from settling and sitting down in it such a fear and trembling as old Eli had 1 Sam. 4. for the Ark whereby he was kept in a fright here is going and weeping with a Holy fear lest the Covenant be again broken Fifthly There is a self loathing kindly humiliation exercise of Repentance

and powers in the Heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God The Second Doctrine is That this good and gracious bargain that 's past betwixt the Father and the Son which is wholly mercie is brought to the Market and exposed to sale on exceeding easie and condescending termes and that to bankrupt sinners What Proclaims the Lord here even this I will give you the Sure mercies of David That which I and my Son have carved out for the glory of Grace and for a proof of the riches of my bounty I will make all over to you freely Hence Ephes 3.8 It 's called the unsearchable riches of Christ So that whatever Christ hath as Mediator It is holden forth here That out of his fulness we may receive Grace for Grace a Proportion of all the Grace that is in him In Prosecuting this point we shall shew 1. More Particularly what this bargain is that is put to the sale 2. Who the Merchant is 3. What are the termes on which and how it is made 4. What is the manner how the Gospel puts home this bargain and layes Christ and his fulness forth upon Stands in the Market-place as it were to speak thus with reverence of this Divine Mystery that there may be free access to whosoever will come and buy these rare and rich Wares and Commodities As for the First that ye may know what the Bargain is and what is in your offer in this day of the Gospel Take it in these few Particulars 1. All that ever any Believer in the world had is put to sale here if any Believer ever had fair Priviledges sure it was David if any ever had a mercifull bargain he had it and such is this Covenant Justification Adoption peace with God Grace and Glory all these Marrowie Materiall massie and essentiall blessings that David had it was not another Christ nor another Heaven nor Another Covenant of Grace that he had but the same that 's here 2. Consider it further and we will find it to be all that is made over to our Lord Jesus Christ If he had a good bargain the spirit without measure fulness of truth and Grace great Glory and Honour being advanced to the right hand of the Father the same is Believers their bargain proportionably a due and just proportion being kept betwixt the head and the members John 1.16 Of his fulness have we all received and Grace for Grace It 's not another but the same Grace that our Lord Jesus hath yea it 's not another Glory they are advanced to no other Table they are set down to no other Throne they are set on but the same Glory Table and Throne It 's to Behold his Glory to Sit at his Table To sit with him on his Throne John 17.22.24 Luke 22.30 Rev. 3.21 In a word there are not two Covenants of Redemption betwixt Jehovah and the Mediator one for himself and another for the elect but it 's one and the same Covenant for both though with many vastly different respective considerations and circumstances 3. Look to the Wares and Commodities to speak so that are exposed to sale in the Gospel they are not only the Promises made to Christ but Jesus Christ himself is brought forth to the Market He is the great Promise and far beyond all the other promises made in and the Graces given by the Covenant I have given Him saith the Lord Vers 4. For a witness and leader to the People He is the great gift of God that Gift of Gifts being the Fathers fellow Nothing in Heaven or Earth no Person man or Angel can by far very far infinitly far equall him to whom can you liken or compare him To us saith the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 9. A Child is born to us a Son is given and the Government shall be upon his shoulders and his Name shall be called wonderful Counseller the mighty God the Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace this is David most substantial Massie mercy He is called Wonderful because there is no Possibility for Creatures adequatly to conceive or with exact suitableness to express what his Name is or what is comprehended within his Name 4. Look on Christ as Mediator as God-man Immanuel God with us There is put to the Market to speak so with reverence God himself for thus the Covenant is expounded and Sum'd as frequently elsewhere in the Scripture so particularly 2 Cor. 6.16 I will be their God and Revel 21.17 He that overcometh shal inherit all things and I will be his God Now consider all these in a Conjunction viz. What all believers have what Christ hath and Christ himself what God hath and God himself O! what an incomprehensibly rich and rare great and Glorious bargain is this and yet all is by the Gospel brought forth laid before the hearers of it and made offer of to them on most easie and wonderfully condescending terms May we briefly and in a few words sum up what is in it 1. All things that may make up believers their Peace with God and remove the quarrel 2. All things pertaining to or needful for life and godliness as it is 2 Pet. 1.4 3. All things that belong to the comfort and consolation of Believers even strong Consolation as it is called Heb. 6.18 There is no want so great but there is a supplie for it here no case so sad but there is a comfort for it here there is not any thing that looks like a crack or uncertainty but there is sufficient security for it here in this Covenant in this most full and wonderfully well ordered Covenant in all things and very sure to all who are fled to Christ for refuge 4. There is in it what is needful and requisit to full satisfaction to the Solace delight joy and compleat happiness of the persons that cordially close with it So that a Soul can crave no more nor wish for more It is even all their desire as David saith of it 2 Sam. 23.5 It 's Mensura voti nay ultra mensuram voti it never entred into mans heart to conceive much less to desire it It makes the Soul say as it is Psal 73.24 Whom have I in Heaven but thee There is none on earth whom I desire besides thee It hath all things in it as it is Rev. 21.7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things For if God and Christ Grace and mercy be in it is there any thing a missing or can there possibly be any thing wanting in it May I not very confidently ask you Is it not a good bargain If the Father Son and Holy Spirit Grace Heaven and Glory be a good bargain this is then most certainly a good bargain a wonderfully good matchless and non-such bargain and is not this Gospel whereby all these great things are brought to the market good news Take heed then that ye receive not this Grace in vain that these wares worthy