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Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…
Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nigh. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nye. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.
London: printed for Nath. Brook, 1660
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Treatise 1 › Sermon 3: The Third SERMON ON The Nature of God.
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Two or three more Uses might be to finish the Point.
Two or three more Uses might bee to finish the Point.
What cause then hast thou to fear this God, and to serve this God in all thy ways, and to worship him as a God whose Name is alone excellent? Who would not fear thee? there is none like unto thee, Jer. 10.7. Who would not fear thee, Oh King of Nations, &c. Let this God be feared by us, let us labour to hold forth the excellency of this our God in our lives and conversations, in our whole course: Oh that it might be written upon our lives, The Name of God is alone excellent; all you that profess to have any interest in this God, you should walk so in your conversations, that it may be written upon your lives, The Name of God is alone excellent, and his glory is above the earth and heavens. Oh take heed that this blessed Name of God, that is alone excellent, be not dishonoured and polluted by you; that we might have been large in, if we had time. James calls it, about Jam. 2.7. That worthy Name of the Lord: you that profess your selves to be Christians, and profess ⟨p. 46⟩godliness more than others, know, that you have the Name of God upon you, and this Name of God it is excellent and glorious, let it not suffer by you: Oh woe to you that ever you were born, if you should be instruments of polluting the Name of God. Me thinks any one that makes profession of Gods Name, should think with himself, it were better that I were dead and rotten under the clods, than that ever I should live to pollute this blessed Name of God that is so excellent: What? was I born that I might live to have my hand in so great a mischief as that this glorious Name of God should be darkened by me? Oh, the Lord forbid: Know what the Name of God is that you profess, and meditate how excellent it is, and let this be a strong argument to keep you from sin: When any temptation comes, oh set this against it, Shall I pollute this Name of God that is so infinitely excellent? No man or woman can dye with peace, and have peace upon their sick-beds, except they can be able to look back into their lives, and to say, Lord, though there hath been much weakness in me, and in many things I have dishonoured thee, yet it hath been my care in my generation, and in the place that thou hast set mee, to lift up thy Name, and I have done some thing through thy grace to lift up thy Name.