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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

by whose company he might have been estranged from him depart from me all ye workers of iniquity for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping the Lord hath heard the voice of my Supplication And indeed it is Highly suitable and congruous that it should be so for what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols and Believers are the Temple of the living God as the Apostle affirms 2 Cor. 6.16 Seventhly It is a heart quickening and reviving Fellowship Therefore he is said Isai 57. vers 15. To dwel with him that is humble and of a contrite Spirit to revive the Spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite one Eightly It is a heart-staying Calming and composing fellowship it husheth into silence and drives away disquieting Perplexing and excruciating fears And therefore saith the Psalmist when near to God Psal 3.56 I laid me down and slept I awaked for the Lord sustained me I will not be afraid of ten thousands of People that have set themselves against me round about ● and Psal 4 8. I will both lay me down in Peace and sleep for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety So Psal 27.13 14. Ninthly It is a heart chearing refreshing and Rejoicing fellowship the refreshing and joy that result from fellowship with God do quite surpass and transcend the joy that the men of the world have in the enjoyment of all their earthly Pleasures Lift thou up saith the Psalmist in the name of the Godly Psal 4.7 In contradistinction from and opposition to those many who cry who will shew us any good debasing and in a manner brutifieing themselves as if they had not rational and Immortal Souls capable of enjoying God the chief good the only Object suited Compleatly to satisfie their most inlarged desires Lord lift thou up the light of thy Countenance upon us for thou hast caused more joy of heart to me to wit thereby Then when their Corn and Wine abound And Psal 89.16 those who walk in the light of His Countenance are said to Rejoice in his name all the day Thus when he Prays Psal 43. For admission to fellowship with God in his publick ordinances to which he had gone with others of his people with the voice of joy and gladness as they that kept Holy days as he telleth us in the Preceeding Psalm he promiseth in that case that he will go unto the altar of God unto God his exceeding joy the gladness or joy of his joy the very heart and Soul of his joy or the Cream of it as some translations render the word there is reality Solidity strength and Efficacy in that joy it is heart-joy while as in the very midst of the carnal joy jollity and mirth of natural men arising from the greatest affluence of worldly pleasures and enjoyments their heart is sorrowfull as Solomon saith there is no solidity in it it hath not a bottom if they would but a little retire within themselves and ask for a reason of their laughter mirth and jollity it would instantly evanish and their hearts would die within them as stones it 's kept up to their delusion and ruine by their abstracting from and non-reflecting upon the unsolidity and irrelevancy of the Grounds thereof but the more the grounds of this joy of the Godly be reflected on considered and searched into they are found to be the more able to bear the Highest Superstructures of their joy Tenthly It is such a fellowship that whatever measure of it be attained by sojourning Saints It wakeneth desires sharpeneth appetite and stirreth up kindly longings for more and yet more of it even till it be compleated Thus Moses the man of God and his great favourite whom he knew face to face when admitted to very much familiar fellowship with him and is told that he had found Grace in his sight that he knew him by name And that at his earnest desire his presence should go with him Exod. 33.12 13 14. Yet saith he to the Lord vers 18. I beseech thee shew me thy Glory So Holy Job Gods darling whose candle shined on his head by whose light he walked through darkness and on whose Tabernacle the Secret of God was Yet with much Holy longing cryes Chap. 23.3 Oh that I knew where I might find him I would come even to his seat and comforts himself amidst all his Sorrows with the assured hope of the fully Satisfieing sight and enjoyment of his Redeemer at the latter day So likewise the Spouse in the Song who had often been brought into the Banquetting house having the Banner of her beloveds love spread over her whose left hand had lain often under her head and whose right hand had em●raced her who had often sitten down under his shadow with great delight and found his fruis sweet to her taste whose Spikenard did send forth the smell thereof while the King sat at his Table who had frequently found by the kisses of his mouth his love to be better then Wine and to whom he had often given his loves in the Vineyards Yet cryes in the conclusion of that High Song make haste or flee my Beloved and be thou like to a Roe or to a young Hart on the mountains of Spices So was it also with David the man according to Gods heart who had much sweet Communion with him in his wandrings and wilderness condition in Caves and Dens of the Earth and had often seen his Power and his Glory in the Sanctuary Yet pants and breaths after more fellowship with him even as the chased Hart doth after the water brooks and cryes when shall I come and appear before God Psal 42. So in like manner was it with the Apostle Paul Christs great Minion who beside all the good dayes he had in dispensing Gospel Ordinances in planting and watering Churches in converting and edifieing multitudes of Souls in his triumphing by making manifest the savour of Christs knowledge had been ravished into the third Heavens caught up into Paradise and heard there unspeakable words that were not lawful or possible to be uttered Yet as if he had never been with him desired to be dissolved and to be with Christ as best of all and groans within himself longing to be absent from the Body and present with the Lord And thus was it finally with John the Divine the Beloved Disciple who had often lyen in his sweet Masters bosom and could confidently say Truly our Fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ closeth his Revelations with that Holily Passionat desire Even so come Lord Jesus Dear Friends let it be more then ever your great work and business to keep your selves in case and capacity to enjoy his blessed company and Fellowship And in order to this end 1. Study to keep your selves through Grace as chast virgins to Christ Jesus as your one Husband let him be to you as the loving Hart and Pleasant Roe let his

is now in Jerusalem and in the seven famous Churches of Asia But the voice of Terrour and as it were the Scriching of Owls and seeing God is not slack as men count slackness what know ye when the Kingdom of God may be taken from you and given to others And when he will cry to speak so Pack and go Every day is not a Market day every Lords day is not a Communion day many Congregations in Ireland and else where have sadly found this wherein it hath come to pass that great scarcity and want are come where there was once great plenty And to press this a little further We may in the First Place Ask whereat it sticks and halts I tell you that there either must be a bargain or it must and will sometime be known where the blame lyes were it but the bare reading of these very words they bring the invitation and offer to you and will ye dare to cast at the wares or the terms on which they are offered Grace brings a good bargain to you and stoops very low with it For 1. It will not stand with you on bygones if now you deal honestly The sure Mercies of David will cover and blot out those and if any of you think that ye have much debt on your head as who ha●h not It will not upbraid you the iniquity of Jacob shall be sought for and shall not be found There shall be as it were Scores drawn through them your accounts shall be all dashed out by free graces Pen This is a cryed Fair and Proclaimed Market of free grace from which no honest comer shall be secluded thrust back or sent away empty for here an empty pur●e needs not make a blate o bashful Merchant 2. Grace stands not precisely on fore-prepa ations whe●e Souls honestly and sincerely come as that ye have not been so and so humbled and have not such and such previous qualifications as ye would be at Nay someway it excludes these as offering to bring money and some price which would quite spoile the nature of the Market of free grace nay yet me say further if it were possible that a soul would come without sense of sin Grace would embrace it sense of sin being no condition of the Covenant but a Physicall to speak so qualification of the Covenanter and grace is free to them that want it and let it be supposed to be in a person void of Grace and still in unrenewed black nature it 's there but a splendid sin as those shadows of Morall vertues in all meerly natural men are Grace can at the instant of coming creat qualifications there could readily be no qualifications in Zacheus when he was on the tree Yet Christ tells him Salvation this day is come to thy house 3. Grace stands not on the want of any effect of Faith where it calls to believing it will not stand on darkness of interest nor on want of progress in Sanctification nor on things being out of order for where it comes it puts things in order It will be no relevant exception for a person that hath no● closed with the bargain and hath not embraced Christ to say alace I have no love to God to the Godly and to his interest because Grace can say thou hast not closed with Christ and so canst not have the effect before the cause come and close and these and other effects shall follow 4. It stands not on degrees of Faith nor on the strength firmness and height of it it will take little even a look or a glance of the souls eye that sees not clearly according to that memorable word Psal 34.5 They looked to him and were lightened the more that souls look to Christ their eye grows the clearer it will take an honestly willing mind and hearty consent though the ability be very litle a receiving or a sincere minting at receiving of the offer Him that comes or is really a coming though he be not yet come at least as he thinks but is with the Prodigal still as he apprehends afar off Will Christ and Grace in no case cast-out for no sooner doth spiritual life stir in Faiths weakest acting and moving towards Christ but Grace meets it 5. It stands on no concomitants though there should be many Idols and lusts raging in the person if there be a reall consenting by Faith to the bargain with a sincere resolution to abandon all these grace will not send him away empty or if the man say Lord I believe help my unbelief that is a done bargain nay were it to come with many spiritual issues and sores running and with fear to presume and as it were to steal a hint of Christ not to speak a word to him but to touch him He will not be angry nor upbraid but will say go in peace thy Faith hath made the whole We may Ask yet further to the recommendation of Grace 1. Was there ever a Merchant that came to the market with that purpose to buy on its own terms that went away empty and without wares If all the Congregation of the first born were put to it they would be ready to bear witness that Grace never stood with them on any qualification in them when they came honestly 2. I Would Ask was there ever any that adventured honestly on it whom it mis-gave That hazarded to speak so and yet fell by the way or that ever repented themselves that they hazarded and entrusted their Souls to this bargain 3. Let me Ask was there eve● any that took hold on and griped it in whose hand i● brake The bargain and Covenant is everlasting th● mercies are sure mercies once sure and alwayes sure once rich and for ever so It was and is a Covenan● well ordered in all things and sure blessed for ever b● the contriver and suretie thereof Some may possibly think that this doctrine looks to be somewhat lax● or lose But sure Grace is not laxe for as we ma● say of Gods power Is any thing to hard for him S● we may say of his Grace Is any thing too free for it Only abuse not Grace Prostitute it not turn not you● back on it neither turn it into wantonness It ye loo● on grace and cheapen only and do not buy or if ye bid for one piece of it only and not for all Wo unto you that ever is was offered unto you what would y● be at Is it Holiness Heaven and happiness and tha● freely They are here Is it Christ and Christ freely and all that is his He is here in your offer wha● means then this whining to speak so and standing so much on terms as if the way of grace were a hard untoward unpassable way and as if God were a ●ar● master Nay it 's a good soft sweet easie way and plain to them that walk in it and God the best Maste● that ever Rich or Poor served and the easiest to serv● and