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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.
To the Christian Reader.
The Author of these ensuing Sermons hath so abundantly approved himself to the Church of God by his former labours, both in preaching and writing, that it would be rather a disparagement to him to offer any thing by way of commendation. His name is yet like a precious Ointment; and so may it be so long as the Sun and Moon endures. These Sermons will discover themselves to be his genuine issue; the several lineaments and proportions of his stile (though stiles differ as much as faces) are here discernible. Those that had the happiness to be conversant with him, and auditors to him, are able to say, Sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat, So he opened his Text, so he handled his Doctrine, so he delivered his Application. It is true, these fragments of his are under the ⟨image 5⟩prejudice of being Posthumus works; yet we may say of them as Paul said concerning himself, We suppose they are not inferior to the rest of his Works, though they are born out of due time; and fragments though they are, yet are they to be esteemed, Ramenta auri sunt pretiosa. These Sermons are to be prized for their own worth and intrinsical excellency, whoever was Author. And this Author is to be honoured for his real worth, whatsoever he is the author of.
THe Authour of these ensuing Sermons hath so abundantly approved himselfe to the Church of God by his former labours, both in preaching and writing, that it would be rather a disparagement to him to offer any thing by way of commendation. His name is yet like a precious Oyntment; and so may it be so long as the Sunne and Moon endures. These Sermons will discover themselves to be his genuine issue; the severall lineaments and proportions of his stile (though stiles differ as much as faces) are here discernable. Those that had the happinesse to be conversant with him, and auditors to him, are able to say, Sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat, So he opened his Text, so he handled his Doctrine, so he delivered his Application. It is true, these fragments of his are under the ⟨image 5⟩