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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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