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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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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 ⟨p. 53⟩the Father, for a sweet savour in the nostrils of the Father; it was Jesus Christ that did appear here to Manoah, and his Name is Wonderful. Luther hath such a speech (I remember) of Christ, saith he, the most famous and wonderful and glorious Miracle of all Miracles is, Jesus Christ, he is the Wonder of the world; God is very wonderful in all his works; in the works of Creation, Psal. 8.1. Oh Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name? and in the end of the Psalm. Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the earth? yea in that one work of his in making of our bodies, Psal. 139.14. I am fearfully and wonderfully made, (saith the Psalmist) God hath made our very bodies fearfully and wonderfully, it is a wonderful work of God the framing of our bodies in the womb. It was a means of the conversion of Galen from Atheism, he saw the Anatomy of a mans body, and beholding the wonderful work of a mans body, it did force him to acknowledge the God of Nature, that there was a being above Nature: Now though God be wonderful in all his works, yet all his wonderful works in the Heavens, and in the Earth, and in the Seas, they must all stand by, and give way to this great Wonder; as the Stars, though they be glorious creatures in themselves, yet when the Sun arises, all their light is eclipsed, you see nothing of them;