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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	consent_n	faith_n	reciprocal_a	110	3	17.7424	5	false

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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

w●nderfully condescending words Hosea 3.3 Thou shalt not be for another man So will I also be for thee The Lord hath Believers under a peculiar tye to him and he hath tyed himself Peculiarly to them so that if we may speak thus neither of them is Master of themselves The Lord Jesus doth some way account himself not to be master of himself he is so engaged to them to be theirs and for them and cannot but be answerable to his engagemen● and they are oblidged to be no more Masters of themselves but to be absolutlie and altogether at his disposing Thirdly this union is made up by mutuall consent of Parties and the consent must be willing His consent comes in his Word He says from thence Behold I stand at the door and knock if any man will hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me I come as if he had said in my Go●pel to woo and if any will consent to take me on the terms on which I offer my self I will be theirs The souls consent is given by Faith in his word which is called John 1.12 receiving of him and is relative to the offer The offer is indeed backed and quickned by the Spirit without which it would never be received yet notwithstanding that which our faith lays hold on is not the Spirit but the word quickened by the spirit Fourthly consider here the effects that follow immediatly and instantly on this Marriage union Christ with all that is his becomes ours and we with all that is ours become his our debt is imputed to him he is lyable to it and must pay i● and provide for us and be our head and Husband and his righteousness the Purchase of his Death and sufferings viz. Justification Sanct fica●ion his Spirit Grace and Glory and every good thing that he hath become ours and at length the Bride is taken into the Kings ivory Palaces The Second Observation was that this is a most honou●able Noble and excellen● Marriage the like whereo never was nor never sh ll be from Adam to he end of the Wo ld it 's with the Kings Son with the Prince of the Kings of the earth the Heir of all things the brightness of the Fathers glory the express Image of his person who was before all things and by whom all things consist O! is there any match like this Is there any so great and so Noble as He Is there an● in this world whom ye can marry that is so rich as He They that Marry Him shall inherit all things Rev. 21.7 We may clear it a litle further from five or Six Particulars in the Text. 1. It 's an excellent and honourable Marriage in respect of the Bridegroom who is as hath ●een hinted The Kings Son who hath not another natural Son He is he only begotten of the Father there is not another Mediator He is the Fathers equall and fellow So that if if we may put an if to it the Father be great and glorious so is He for He is God the same God equal with the Father in Power and Glory the wonderful Counseller the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Secondly this Marriage is excellent and honourable in respect of the Brides Father in Law so to speak He is the King God the Father Son and holy Ghost have all a hand in it and the Believer married to Christ is Daughter in law to the great God ingrafted some way into the same stock allayed with the same family 2 Cor. 6.18 I will be a Father to you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters sayeth the Lord Almighty Thirdly it's excellent and honourable in respect of the Preparation made for it There was never such a wedding Feast the dinner is prepared the oxen and Fa●lings killed but you will say what is all that Even Jesus Christ himself He is that Bread indeed that drink indeed the feast of fat things and of wines on the lees well refined the Bridegroom is to say so the chief dish that the Believer feeds and lives upon for ever and the Spirituall blessings and benefits that are gotten in him and from him are as so many dishes of this feast such as righteousness Pardon of sin Peace and friendship with God the Spirit Adoption Sanctification joy in the holy Ghost grace and Glory the hope of a Croum in those mansions that are in his Fathers House of a seat with him at his Table and on his Throne even a share in his whole Purchase and is not that a feast Fourthly its Honourable and excellent in respect of its most noble rise viz. From all eternity in the bosome of the Father it bred to say so in the Kings breast before the foundation of the World was laid the Covenant of Redemption was then concluded and the contract of marriage there drawn and the blessed Project of it then laid down Sacrifices and Offerings thou didst not desire saith the Mediator Psal 40. Mine ears host thou opened burnt offerings nor sin offerings thou hast not required Then said I lo I come in the Volume of thy Book it is written of me I delight to do thy will O my God The Father gives so many to the Son to be redeemed of whom he willingly readily and cheerfully accepts and offers to satisfie for them which in due time he doth Fifthly its excellent and honourable in this respect That there was never such a concurrence of so many and so great things to commend and further a marriage as there is in this Such as the making of the World men and Angels the incarnation of Christ or his coming into the World his Preaching and working of Miracles for confirmation of his doctrine his suffering and dying rising and ascending his giving Ministers and their gifts and to make up the Marriage union the Spirit from Heaven coming along with the word and working faith in the Soul by which bonds Christ the Believer are joined together Christ by his Spirit apprehending the Believer the beliver apprehending Christ by Faith was there ever a marriage contract or union bound up betwixt two such vastly and infinitly distant Parties was there ever such honour and riches attending and following a match such righteousness remission of sin Adoption Peace with God joy of the Holy Ghost the Spirit holiness in the beginning and gradual advances of it fellowship and walking with God the White stone the new Name the Throne the Crown Grace and Glory every thing that is good for the Bride here and Glory in Heaven In a word Jesus Christ and all the benefits of his Purchase were there ever such easie termes and conditions It 's only come to the Wedding when the King comes a wooing let him be welcomed with your hearts consent when he sayes I am content to marrie you let your hea●ts say Amen Lord Jesus I am content to

a suitable and due esteem of fellowship and Communion with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ which is commended and indeared to your Souls and to the Souls of others of the Lords People by the choice rare excellent and non-such Nature and Properties of it It being found by you all Priviledged with admission to the enjoyment thereof in your experience to be First most Real and no Chimerical fancy or a thing that hath no being but in the deluded imagination of the Person and truly saith the Apostle John 1 Jon. 1.3 Our Fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ It hath most reall effects though Spiritual Gracious Souls being more lively affected with them then their very external Senses are by the rarest and most Remarkable Objects And no doubt the more Spiritual any thing is It hath in it the greater reality and worketh the more Powerfully and efficaciously It is uncontrovertible and quite removed from all reach of rational debate that God is the greatest reality and by Proportion Communion with God Whereby nearest and closest Approaches are made to him must be very real marvellous are the effects of this Communion and that your Souls know right well as the Psalmist speaketh Psal 139 14. in another case Secondly It is an Awfull Fellowship and full of dread It impresseth the Soul with a deep yet kindly veneration of the Glorious Majesty of the great and Holy God Who as it is said Psal 89. vers 7. Is greatly to be feared in the assemblies of his Saints where they are admitted to fellowship with him and to be had in reverence by all that are about him When Jacob was admitted to very near Communion with him Gen. 28. He saith vers 16. Surely the Lord is in this place and I was not aware and vers 17. It is said of him that he was afraid and said how dreadfull is this Place this is none other but the house of God and this is the gate of Heaven Familiarity here breeds no contempt nor is it waited with any neglect or forgetfulness to keep due distance Thirdly It is a deeply humbling and Holily Self debasing Fellowship as appears in Abraham Gen. 18. who being as Gods speciall friend admitted to talk with him at an unusuall and extraordinary rate of Familiaritie Yet interlines as it were his discourse almost in every period of it with deeply self debasing acknowledgements of his being but dust and ashes and deprecatings of Gods anger for his taking upon him to speak to Him betwixt whom and himself there was so infinitly vast a disproportion so the Prophet Isaiah when he hath that Glorious Vision of the Majestie of God Chap. 6. and hears the Seraphims those purely intellectuall Creatures having their faces covered with their wings as not being able to behold the Brightness of the Glory of the most absolutely perfect Holiness of God crying in a transport of admiration each to another Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God of Hosts the Earth is full of his Glory he saith Wo's me for I am undone Because I am a man of unclean lips and dwel in the midst of a People of Polluted lips for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts So also Job non-such in his time according to Divine testimony when he is admitted to unusual nearness to God saith Chap. 42. I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the Ear but now mine Eye seeth Thee wherefore I abhore my self and repent in dust and ashes The nearest approaches to that light wherein there is no darkness at all make the clearest discoveries of the most eminent Saints their unworthiness nothingness and vileness Fourthly It is a Transforming Fellowship and assimilats the Person Priviledged with admission to it to Him that is conversed with and with whom Fellowship is attained unto there is no real Communion with him but the result of it is some lineament of further likeness to him We all saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 3.18 Beholding the Glory of the Lord as in a Glass are changed or transformed into the same Image from Glory to Glory as by the Spirit of the Lord Communion with and conformity to God have mutual influence and Reciprocall force each upon other the more Communion with him the more likeness and conformity to him the more likeness to him the more Communion with him litle Communion with him makes litle conformity to him and litle conformity to him cannot but be attended with litle Communion with him Fifthly It is a wonderful Fellowship a fellowship that even sometimes transports in a manner the Soul admitted to it especially in any more then Ordinary way or measure into a sort of Rapture and extasy of Admiration at it Thus it did David 2 Sa. 7.18 Who saith he am I O Lord and what is my Fathers house that thou hast brought me hitherto and Solomon who being very near to God in that Solemn prayer of his at the Dedication of the Temple saith 1 Kings 8.27 But will God indeed dwell with men on earth and as it is 2 Chron. 6. vers 18. But will God in very deed dwell with men on Earth And indeed it is no great wonder that it be greatly wondered at that the Infinitly great and Holy God who inhabiteth Eternity and the High and Lofty one who dweleth in the High and Holy Place and is surrounded and attended there with an Innumerable Company of Angels of the Spirits of Just men made Perfect all of them shining in light and burning in zeal none of them wearying to do him service should humble himself so far and stoop so low so very low as to dwell also an Emphatick also with sinful though humble and contrit Creatures who dwell in Cottages of clay and whose habitation is in the dust that he who is of purer eyes then that he can behold iniquity without detestation and abhorrency should yet humble himself not only to Behold but with delight to dwell and keep fellowship with them who are in a great measure unholy and have so much of that dwelling in them which his Soul hates that the Glorious Persons of the dreadful and adorable God head should come and make their abode with such in whom so great a Remainder of stinking unmortified Corruption hath still its abode that infinitly pure and perfect light should have fellowship with them in whom there is so much darkness Sixthly It is an estranging fellowship from all Idols and what ever is displeasing to God and estranging from him Accordingly Ephraim being brought near to him saith Hos 14. v. 8. what have I to do any more with Idols and the people of God supposed to be in a good Spiritual frame and near to him say Isai 30 22. to every Idol which they cast away as a menstruous Cloth with Indignation and abhorrency get thee hence and David being admitted to very near Communion with God Psal 6. saith v. 8. To wicked men