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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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Christ Wonderful in the manner of his Incarnation.
Thirdly, Well may he have this Title of Wonderful, seeing he is such a one as he is, thus opened unto you. But thirdly, Christ his Name is wonderful, he is wonderful in the manner of his Incarnation. Christ he is God and man; but how came Christ to take mans nature upon him? it was a wonderful and a strange kind of way that the second Person in Trinity came to take our nature upon him, it was by being conceived by the Holy Ghost, by being born of a Virgin; Christ was man, and came from man, but not by man; the way of Christs generation it is wonderful, Oh who can declare it? We ordinarily can say,1 we do believe that Christ was born of a Virgin, born of the Virgin Mary, who cannot repeat his Creed? but I appeal to you, when were your hearts ever taken with the wonderful work of God in the Incarnation of Christ, that way of being born of a Virgin? God faith that he will do a great and marvellous thing;2 For a Virgin shall conceive a Son, it is such a thing as never was done before since the world began, nor never shall be done again; the ordinary manner of the generation of man was here stopped, when Christ came to be born, saith God, I will have a new way of generation, for indeed there was a great Lord to be born into the world, a great Prince, and he must be born after another way different from the ordinary way of Mankind, in a wonderful way, the Holy Ghost being the cause of the conception, and so brought forth by a Virgin: You will say, Why was this? Here indeed consists the wonder that we are to sanctify Gods Name in, not only to know that it was after such a way, and not as Adam was, he was made man, but he must be made man in such a marvellous way: You will say, why could ⟨p. 64⟩not Christ come into the world after the ordinary manner of generation? You will answer to your selves, God would have it so, but there is something of Gods mind that he would have you know why he would have it so: