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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

which the Sacrament as a Seal is appended Therefore the cup is called The Cup of the New Testament 3. The seal of the Sacrament it self appended to the word and Covenant 2. We would distinguish betwixt Christs broken Body considered as discernible to our understanding only and the same considered as it is discernible to our very senses or as it is apprehensible when by feeling we may grip it as it were and not only look to it but take hol● of it how this is shal be more Particularly explained and cleared afterward for preventing of mistakes it is in this last sense that we understand discernible here not excluding the former so that Christs broken body in the Sacrament is not only made discernible to the understanding of the right communicant but he is made Communicable and apprehensible and there is an union with him attainable in that Ordinance and what we said before proves this he holds out His Body to be received And He is received in it A● for the Second to wit The Questions to be answered they are these Four 1. In what respect is Christ present and discernible in the Sacrament Secondly to what is he made discernible and Communicable Thirdly how the Sacrament makes him discernible and what way it holds him out as discernible to us Fourthly what may be the reasons why Christ holds out himself His broken Body as discernible to us in the Sacrament First then in what respect is Christ present and discernible in the Sacrament We answer first not simply considered as he is the Son of God nor in respect of any benefi● from him as media●or neither simply as Redeemer But he is holden out as incarnat and so this Sacrament differs from the Jews Passover which held him out as to come while this holds him out as come Secondly it holds him out not only as become man but as suffering as having his Body broken Thirdly He is made discernible in respect of the end for which He suffered and had his Body broken and his Blood shed This is sayeth he my Body which is broken for you This cup is the New Testament in my Blood shed for the remission of the sins of many to wit of all the Elect It holds out Christ Mediator God-man suffering for us Fourthly It holds him out as Communicable and in capacity to be participat of by us Therefore it s called the Communion of His body Chap. 10.16 To tell us that we may be united to him and made to share of him and we are bidden Take and Eat and all to drink of it These last two look to the Covenan● and hold out the Sacrament in reference to it and how our Lord Jesus First by his sufferings was to purchase a People to himself and Secondly that he was to be Communicable to his People therefore the Cup is called the New Covenant in his Blood The Cup and the Covenant go together For though we may consider Christ without the Sacrament yet we cannot so well consider the Sacrament without Christ and the Covenant Secondly To what is Christ made discernible and Communicable We answer First he is not discernible nor present after a corporal manner to the bodily eye though he be really and truely present The bread that he gives is his Body and the Cup his Blood and yet it was Bread and wine which was given and not his Body and Blood corporally Secondly he is not present and Communicable by any local mutation by taking us up to heaven to him or by bringing his Body out of Heaven to us But he is these three wayes present and Communicable First to our Spirituall senses to an enlightned understanding which considers Christs Body broken and his Blood shed Secondly To the Faith of his people he is present in his own ordinance when his spirit goes along and quickens their hearts and their faith is in exercise They are made to apprehend Christs Body and to have an union with him sitting in Glory as really as they partake of the elements with their hand and feed upon them with their mouth and stomach an union as reall as is betwixt the head and the members and betwixt the root and the branches These two the Spirit on Christs side and Faith on our side make up a reall union and therefore though this presence be real yet it 's Spirituall Faith looking and going thorow the elements takes up Christ according to the end appointed and this makes the union even as fai●h will look and go thorow the word and crediting the word takes up Christ in it and makes an union with him so by vertue of this ordinance there is a Spiritual presence of and union with Christ Jesus Thirdly A presence to sense not so much in respect of inward feeling as in respect of the powerful effects of his presence though often inward feeling goes alongst with it and therefore it s called the Communion of his Body and the wine of Heaven And in respect of the mean and way he manifests himself therein to the eye to the touch to the taste and to the ear and there is a colour sensible which is more then is in any other ordinance where there is but the exercise of one sense for the more of the outward senses he makes use of he brings with him a proportionable blessing to the inward senses of the soul Thirdly How doth the Sacrament hold out Christ as discernible to us For answer I shal offer these Four wayes How he may be present to the faith of the Believer in the Sacrament all which wayes he is made discernible 1 In respect of the institution for Christ is here represented by the Minister as giving himself his authority and warrand is here therefore himself is 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 signes 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 shew a most true and reall 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 shew forth the Lords Death till he come again Every Sacrament represents Christ but this represents him in his suffering and dieing and in the end of it and makes it over to the worthie 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 ratifie and confirm the Promises contained in the Covenant and so the Bread and wine considered

but generally there is a greater Ignorance Darkness and Blindness as to the right partaking of this Ordinance then as to most others either thorow the difficulty of it or through our Laziness that puts us not to study it better So that if it were asked at many of us who may have some affection what is a Communion And what is the right way of partaking of it there would be found but very little distinctness in the thing and many content themselves to live without clearness about it And this makes people incapable to go about it aright A Fourth reason is from Peoples loathness to bestir themselves in the wo k of Preparation for it There is some Self examination requisite for every Duty but there is a more Solemn Self examination injoyned in reference to this and how very reluctant are we to it And seeing examination of our selves is as the door and entry to this Duty is it any wonder that most Persons Communicat unworthily This exercise of Self-searching being so much slighted which is to the most part so very difficult and to many through their own fault impossible The First Use Serves for warning as to this matter It is easie to get a Token and to come to the Table but it is not so easie To Eat and Drink worthily not so easie to discern the Lords Body and to get Christ himself in the ordinance and in a word so to go about partaking of the Lords Supper as ye may have solid quietness of mind in reflecting on it Is it not a wonder then that the most part doe so securely and in a manner even desperatly rush upon it who have it may be lyen some Ten some Twenty some thirty years without trouble under this guilt We would think it a good piece of Preparation if ye were Seriously afraid to become guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord want of this holy fear breeds security and keeps from stirring up to dutie and from reflecting on our selves whereas if the heart were stirred and rouzed with such a fear there would be greater and more seiously sharpened diligence in all these duties whereof we heard from the foregoing words to which this is a strong and pressing motive The Second Use Serves for Tryal who among the great company gathered together here this day are afraid of si●ning against God and taking his Name in vain in so Solemn an Ordinance many think they are prepared but we think not that person the better prepared that is not afraid and holily jealous over himself Wo wo to many on the account of Communion-dayes that are past and gone without fear It were good that ye were afraid lest this day prove to be like many former dayes and lest any of you come short of what hath been attained in former communion dayes Thir●ly Observe That the sin of unworthy Communicating is a Wrath provoking and a Judgement-drawing-on-sin He that Eates and Drinks unworthily Eates and Drinks Damnation to himself There is hardly any sin that the Lord will more readily speedily and Sadly Plague and punish then this It s true the Lord ha●h annexed ha● Certification to the third Command That He will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain but i● there any Ordinance wherein the Threatning is more expressed and in reference to which the Judgement hat● been more seve●ely some way indifferently inflicted As is clear whether we read before o● after the words of the Text And there is good reason for it For first If the duty be more Solemn if the presence in it be more gracious and the bounty that fl wes in it be more abundant then sure the sin of abusing or of unbecoming going about it must be the greater Secondly if we look to the sin not only in respect of its greatness in ●everal other respects but in respect of the Nature of it It s a more direct disrespect put upon and despight done in some respect even unto Christ It s to be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord It as if the Spear had been in such a mans hand that pierced Christs side and as if he had driven by his own hand the Nails thorow His Hands and Feet The reason is because Christ in this Ordinance brings himself and his death so very near that the sin●er is put to it in a speciall m●nner either to receive him or to refuse and reject him and when he refuses and rejects him he thereby Practically sayes that he makes but very litle or no account of him at all and that if he had been living in those dayes when He was crucified he would also have joi●ed with the Multitude and cryed away with him Thus such an one Crucifieth the son of God a fresh and puts him to an open shame O hainous and horrid guilt The First Use Serves to allarme you that if the fear of sin will not prevail with you the fear of Judgement of Gods curse and wrath and of the vengeance of the Media●o represented in this Ordinance very clearly as crucified and bleeding out his precious life or sinners Here and eternally hereafter may prevail with you to be serious in the work ye are now called to Let me which is a Second and more particular Use of the Doctrine advise you as to examine your selves seriously in reference to all your other wayes so to take a Speciall look of your bygone Communicating O! that many of you who are so whole at the Heart that there is no provoking nor wakening of you and who are so sensless that ye scare at nothing could be prevailed with to charge your selves with this horrid sin of being guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord That thereby ye may be awakened It will certainly one day awake you therefore in your Self examination take speciall notice if ye have not Communicated unworthily make Special addresses ●o God for removing of this dreadful Guilt and have a special eye for the time to come that ye fall not in it I say again take a speciall review of your bygone carriage in this Ordinance and say to your selves whether are we Guilty of this sin and whether are we in Hazard to ●all into it of new And to stirre you up to this Consider 1. What temporal strokes from God have come or may come for it who knowes but our outward captivity the Blood that hath been shed the many new and unheard of or but very little heard of diseases that are among us have in a great Part been for this Sin Secondly know that beside temporal Strokes on the outward man ye may fall under Spiritual Plagues the Lord may blast the Ordinances for the time to come that they shal do you no good and He may last any part and gift that ye have He may make your Ears dull of hea●ing and your Eyes blind and your Hearts fat And if ye quench any convictions that ye

come ashore all tears shall be wiped from your eyes and sorrow and sighing shall flee away and ye shall meet with that word O warm word Come ye faithful Servants enter into the joy of your Lord ye will not always fight and wrestle neither will ye be alwayes tempted and troubled rest and repose is a coming it 's even at hand then one ray of his Coun●enance will be infinitly more heartsome refreshing and satisfieing then all these things that ye are now called to abandon and part with can possibly amount to Christs first welcome to his Fathers house will eternally banish the remembrance of all the sad things that ye meet with in this world The Fourth and last Observation is that The great mean of securing a Covenanter making him stedfast is Faith exercised on God or adhering to him by Faith by vertue of this Covenant It is not to lay weight on or trust to our own strength but seeing God hath made a promise of thorow-bearing to undertake the duties that we are called to in his strength trusting to his Faithfulness and to his furnishing of us according to the Covenant As when poor sinners are Summoned to appear before God and they have no righteousness of their own they are to step forward trusting to Christs righteousness So when they are called to dutie and they have no strength of their own to enable them to a suitable discharge thereof they are to consider that God is faithfull who hath promised and who will also do it and indeed Believers have found in their comfortable experience that when they have adventured on dutie with a believing look to Gods Covenanted strength they have found it go sweetly surprisingly well with them Thus it is said of those worthies mentioned Heb. 11. That through faith they wrought Righteousness as well as they did all other things thereby This also is it which the Lord inculcateth John 15. abide in me saith He and ye shall bring forth much fruit as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the Vine no more can ye except ye abide in me for without me ye can do nothing Where it is clear that it 's not enough that we be in Christ but that we must abide in him and have continuall dependance on him for the influences of life and strength derived from him Ye then that would be faithfull in Gods Covenant would have it Perpetuall never to be forgotten must especially make use of this mean make Conscience of all other appointed means Watch and pray that ye enter not into Tentation but see that ye neglect not this mean which if ye do the Watchman will watch in vain and your grip or hold will be unsiker if ye make not use of him to make it sure and to keep it so And therefore 1. Mind seriously and constantly what ye are in and of your selves even fickle fectless weak feeble and unconstant creatures not daring to undertake any thing in your own strength 2. Remember what God is and that ye have a worthy able and responsall Cautioner 3. Remember that ye are engaged in a Covenant never to be forgotten forgetting is the first rise of unfaithfulness 4. Remember the Promises that God hath made for your thorow-bearing and let faith be exercised on them Joyn with diligence and watchfulness a suitable exercise of Faith 5. Take a serious look every day when ye go to pray of your resolutions and engagements renew them frequently and seriously in his own strength and be casting the other knot and put the heart distinctly to say this was my bargain and I will through Grace abide by it and then go and pray over it that ye may be made faithful in your thus Covenanting with God that ye may be enabled to pay your vowes and make your honest resolutions Practicable levelling at this as your Scope and designe in all duties I have said such a thing and have not kept my word Lord forgive it for Christs sake I am engaged in this and that and the other duty Lord help me to perform And for your furtherance in humiliation and soft walking before God look on all your sins as aggravated by this unfaithful and treacherous dealing in Gods Covenant and on all duties as those which your Covenant with God binds you to depend on him for strength to be Communicated to you according to the Covenant for going about them suitably and acceptably and within a litle while ye shall get a fair pass to be gone and a full discharge of all that ye were trusted with according to the Covenant And the Lord help you to be faithful so that it may be betwixt God and you in very deed A perpetuall Covenant that shall not be forgotten A SERMON Preached Immediatly before the Communion On Matth. 26. Vers 28.29 For thi● is my Blood of the New Testament wh●● is shed for many for the Remission of sins But I s● unto you I w ll not drink henceforth of this fruit 〈◊〉 the Vine untill that day when I drink it new w● you in my Fathers Kingdom ALthough we had no more to do at our meeting together in this place to day but to Read and he● these same wonderful words If our hearts were in suitable spiritual frame knowing and considering wh● we are about and doing we would be in a Divine Ra●ture and Transport of Admiration at His love a● kindled into a flame of Holy zeal for his glory by then O What sweet and happy words are these from our di●ing Lord Jesus Christ his mouth Eye hath not seen e● hath not heard Neither hath it entered into the heart 〈◊〉 Man to conceive what things the Lord hath prepared f●● them that wait for him And indeed there is a sum o● them in these words they being a Compend of t● Testament and legacy which our Lord hath left to h● friends O Sinners be of good chear there are goo● news and glad tidings of great joy here Here is t● new Covenant and all that is in it and Remission 〈◊〉 sins in Particular as the Legacy Here is Christ whi●● maketh this Covenant Savoury and it is confirmed 〈◊〉 his Death who is the Testator thereof Which makes it sure Here is Heaven and Eternall glory and what would you have more This is saith he my Blood of the New Testament Whi●h is shed for the Remission of the sins of many Which holds forth the Promises and the convey of them the Legacy and how it comes to us I will not saith he Drink of this fruit of the Vine untill I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdome There is Heaven the heartsome up shot of all Remission of sins comes to sinners Covenant wise thorow Christs Blood and by closing with Christ and making Application of this Blood sinners come to get Remission of sins and all the benefits of the Covenant and are brought at last to Drink the new