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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 CONTENTS of the foregoing SERMONS.
SERMON I. The words are a part of Moses his Song which Song is, page 2 1. The most ancient Song in the world ibid. 2. A spiritual and most excellent Song ibid. 3. A very delightful Son ibid. 4. A Typical Song ibid. 5. In the opinion of Austin a miraculous Song 3 Doctrine. There is none like to God 4 1. Because whatever is in God is God himself 5 2. There is an universal goodness in God ibid. 3. All beings are but one excellency in God ibid. 4. All that is in God is primitively in him ibid. 5. God can communicate himself so as none can. God can communicate as much of his goodness as he will. And can make the creature as sensible of it as he will ibid. And God can bring all evil at once upon the creature. And can make the creature as sensible of that evil as he will 6 Use. It should be our care in beholding any good or excellency in the creature, to keep in our thoughts and hearts, an apprehension of the infinite distance that there is between God and that creature ibid. ⟨image 73⟩The want of which hath been the cause both of outward Idolatry, and of Spiritual Idolatry 7 There is none like to God; therefore none like to the people of God 8 None should do for their. Idol-gods so as Gods people should do for their God 9 What Idolaters will do in reference to their Idol-gods ibid. Idolaters are, 1. Earnest after their Idol-gods 10 2. They are mad upon their Idols ibid. 3. The strength of the affections of Idolaters after their Idol-gods appears from Jer. 8. 1, 2. ibid. 4. Idolaters will be at any cost upon their Idols 11 5. Idolaters willing to, suffer any thing for their Idol-gods ibid. 6. Idolaters constant to their Idols ibid. We should take heed lest any should have their hearts more set upon their lusts, then ours are upon God ibid. Gods title of being glorious in holiness considered 13 Holiness in God what it is. 1. Negatively: It is that whereby his nature is free from all kind of mixture, and from the least soils and filth of sin ibid. 2. Positively: It is the infinite rectitude and perfection of the will of God especially, whereby he doth will and work all things suitable to the infinite excellency of his own being 14 The holiness of God considered by looking into the holiness of the creature ibid. How God is glorious in holiness.