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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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These are the two Wonders in Christian Religion.
First, divers Persons in one Nature, and that is the wonder of the Trinity, for there you have but one Nature, the Divine Nature, but three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and that is a Wonder that the Heathens knew nothing of, and was little known till Christ came.
And the second Wonder in Christian Religion is, divers Natures in one Person, that is in Christ; Christ is God-man, but one Person united hypostatically; now to search into this, that the same Person that is God, is man, and how the humane nature subsists in the Deity, and hath no subsistence at all in its self, but in the Deity, how this is, only the ⟨p. 60⟩Scripture reveals it to be so, but how it is (I say) is too deep a sea for any creature to wade into, we must stand and admire it, and adore God in it, that hath revealed this as the object of our faith, but to be able to search how such a thing can be, that that union can be in one person, this is that that is a wonder above all admiration: Indeed it is one of the most wonderful works that ever God did in the world, to unite two such creatures that seemed to be of such distant Natures, as the body of man, and the Soul of man in one Person; to unite a piece of earth, and a piece of flesh, to such a glorious thing as a rational immortal soul is, the union of these two together in one person is the greatest work, for the works of Nature, that ever God did in the world; David saw his body wonderfully and fearfully made; but certainly the union of the body and soul, the soul being of the same nature with the Angels, that it should be united with the body to make but one Person, this is a great wonder in the works of Nature: But to unite the second Person in Trinity to the nature of man, not to the nature of Angels,1