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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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But Secondly, Here is a greater wonder than that, God is God and man. God and man (you will say) that may be, he hath come in the similitude of flesh, and hath taken the shape of man, some kind of union there may be between the Divine and humane Nature; but consider this second Wonder, he is not only God, but a second Person in Trinity: Consider these two things in the Person of Christ, ⟨p. 59⟩First, He is to be looked at, not merely as God, but as God the second Person of the Trinity, and this is a great wonder in Christian Religion, for it was little known before. We read but little in the Old Testament about the Trinity, only in Christ the Trinity comes to be known; when we are in straits we will cry to God that made the heavens and earth to be a Saviour; but for us to know that we must be saved by God in the Second Person, that is the character and engraven form of his Image, the Son of God, and yet so the Son of God as he is Co-eternal with his Father, equal with his Father, as the Scripture speaks, and so God the Second Person in Trinity, as yet he is of the same Nature that his Father is of, the same God, and yet the Son of God, the consideration of the mystery of the Trinity, that appears in Christ, is a great wonder above reason, that we may adore it, but search into it we are not able.
But Secondly, Here is a greater wonder than that, God is God and man. God and man (you will say) that may bee, hee hath come in the similitude of flesh, and hath taken the shape of man, some kinde of union there may bee between the Divine and humane Nature; but consider this second Wonder, hee is not onely God, but a second Person in Trinity: Consider these two things in the Person of Christ, ⟨p. 59⟩First, He is to be looked at, not meerly as God, but as God the second Person of the Trinity, and this is a great wonder in Christian Religion, for it was little known before. Wee read but little in the Old Testament about the Trinity, onely in Christ the Trinity comes to bee known; when wee are in streights wee will cry to God that made the heavens and earth to bee a Saviour; but for us to know that wee must bee saved by God in the Second Person, that is the character and ingraven form of his Image, the Son of God, and yet so the Son of God as hee is Co-eternal with his Father, equal with his Father, as the Scripture speaks, and so God the Second Person in Trinity, as yet hee is of the same Nature that his Father is of, the same God, and yet the Son of God, the consideration of the mystery of the Trinity, that appears in Christ, is a great wonder above reason, that wee may adore it, but search into it wee are not able.