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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 2 › Sermon 1: The First SERMON ON The Excellency of Christ.
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IF you read this verse, and that that follows, you might think that you were rather reading an Evangelist, than a Prophet, one rather relating a History of what was done, than a Prophecy of what was to be done. Isaiah here prophesies clearly of Christ, as if he had been come at that time, and yet it was between seven and eight hundred years before the coming of Christ that this Prophecy was, Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his shoulder; And his Name shall be called Wonderful. But it is the usual way of Scripture to set before us things to be done, as if they were already done, to note the certainty of what God reveals to be done, and faith will make things that are not, to be, as if they were really present. And indeed, faith never hath a proper work so much as in this, in making things that are not present, to be as if they were present, to make them real. It was a time of great distress and trouble to the Church God, when this Prophecy was, as will appear from the seventh Chapter ⟨p. 50⟩even unto this Prophecy. And frequently we find in Scripture in times of the greatest distress of the Church, there were the clearest Prophesies of Christ, of the Messiah to come.1 Jacob Prophesies of Shiloh when he was in Egypt; and Daniel of the Messiah when he was in Captivity, in Babylon; and Isaiah here, To us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, whose Name is Wonderful Counsellor, the mighty God, when the people were in great distress. And there are four reasons why the Lord would have the Prophecy of the Messiah, at those times especially, when the Church was in a sad, in a suffering condition.