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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Treatise 2 › Sermon 2: The Second SERMON ON The Excellency of Christ.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In his Natures.
In his Person.
In the manner of his Incarnation.
In the end why he was sent hither.
In the end why hee was sent hither.
And in his Offices, in his Anointment as he was Christ. Christ signifies the Anointed of God, and is all one with the Messiah; that that was the Messiah in the Old Testament, is Christ in the New. The word signifies Anointed. And Christ is the Anointed of the Father, Anointed to those three great Offices, King, Priest, and Prophet. Great in all these three Offices, never any man in the world had them all before, I say, never man in the world was Anointed to ⟨p. 69⟩