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The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /
The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painful minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughs.The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painfull minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by T.C. for John Wright, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again, real and substantial things they are, because we find they have a real and substantial operation upon the souls of those that are acquainted with them. O the mighty work that appears upon the hearts of the godly from the apprehension of spiritual things, that are the objects of faith! how do spiritual things tune and raise the hearts of men that were low, and base, and drossy, and vile before, to converse with God in the highest way and kind that it is possible for a creature to converse with God in; and what great things do they enable the soul to do! those things that have such a substantial operation, must needs be real and substantial.
Againe, reall and substantiall things they are, because we finde they have a reall and substantiall operation upon the souls of those that are acquainted with them. O the mighty work that appeares upon the hearts of the godly from the apprehension of spirituall things, that are the objects of faith! how doe spirituall things tune and raise the hearts of men that were low, and base, and drossy, and vile before, to converse with God in the highest way and kinde that it is possible for a creature to converse with God in; and what great things doe they enable the soul to doe! those things that have such a substantiall operation, must needs be reall and substantiall.
Lastly, they have an eternal subsistency, that shall never vanish or fade away, that when all other things shall wither as the grass, spiritual and heavenly things shall abide for ever: therefore they are the only substantial things.
Lastly, they have an eternall subsistency, that shall never vanish or fade away, that when all other things shall wither as the grasse, spirituall and heavenly things shall abide for ever: therefore they are the only substantiall things.