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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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I intend only to speak of the first, His Name shall be called Wonderful, because I would have some kind of proportion between what I have presented to you about God, and what I shall about Christ: And as for other things more largely about God or Christ, it may be afterwards, but only now I shall desire to present Christ unto you in this one Title of his, His Name shall be called Wonderful. From whence the Point is this,
I intend onely to speak of the first, His Name shall bee called Wonderful, because I would have some kinde of proportion between what I have presented to you about God, and what I shall about Christ: And as for other things more largely about God or Christ, it may bee afterwards, but onely now I shall desire to present Christ unto you in this one Title of his, His Name shall bee called Wonderful. From whence the Point is this,
Doct Jesus Christ is the great Wonder of the world.
That is our point of Doctrine: God himself, above seven hundred years before he was born, gives him this Name Wonderful; in the 19. of this Prophecy, vers. 20. we read of a Saviour,1 a Great one (saith the Text) surely Jesus Christ he is a Saviour, and a Great one, he is the Wonder of the world. Judg. 13.17, 18. The story of the Angels appearing unto Manoah, Manoah would fain know his name, And Manoah said unto the Angel of the Lord, What is thy Name? vers. 18. the Angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou after my name, seeing it is secret? Now the word that is translated in your books Secret, it is a word that signifies Wonderful; And Austin in his Questions upon this Book of Judges, he is confident that this Angel was Jesus Christ, and that his ascending up in the sacrifice that Manoah offered, it was to fore-signify Jesus Christ to be the only Sacrifice that should ascend up to