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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.
The ninth joyful sound is this: the Gospel hath a mighty efficacy to melt the heart, and to resolve it into sorrow and mourning, & such mourning, that is one of the most acceptable things to God in the world; the law, I told you, accepts not of repentance: I, but the Gospel doth; the tears of repentance that come from believers, next to the blood of Jesus Christ, are the most precious things in the world. I say, next to the drops of the blood of Christ, the drops of thy tears, coming from Evangelical repentance, are most acceptable unto God: That is the ninth joyful sound.
The ninth joyful sound is this: the Gospel hath a mighty efficacy to melt the heart, and to resolve it into sorrow and mourning, & such mourning, that is one of the most acceptable things to God in the world; the law, I told you, accepts not of repentance: I, but the Gospel doth; the teares of repentance that come from believers, next to the blood of Jesus Christ, are the most precious things in the world. I say, next to the drops of the blood of Christ, the drops of thy teares, coming from Evangelical repentance, are most acceptable unto God: That is the ninth joyful sound.
Tenthly, another is this; the Gospel it comes with healing: as it hath a melting power, so it hath a healing power. Christ is described to come with healing in his wings: water makes the lime burn the more, but oil which provokes other things to burn quenches that: so it is with the oil of ⟨p. 104⟩the Gospel, Christ was anointed for this purpose, to heal thee, and to quench thy lust and corruptions, In Isai. 57. 18. we have an excellent promise, vers. 17. He went on frowardly in the way of his heart, mark what follows, I have seen his ways, and I will heal him.
Tenthly, another is this; the Gospel it comes with healing: as it hath a melting power, so it hath a healing power. Christ is described to come with healing in his wings: water makes the lime burne the more, but oyle which provokes other things to burne quenches that: so it is with the oyle of