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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 2: The Second SERMON ON The Excellency of Christ.
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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⟩these three together, but only Christ. We read in Scripture of a King and Priest, so Melchizedek was; we read in Scripture of a King, and a Prophet, and so David was; we read in Scripture of a Prophet, and a Priest, so Jeremiah was: but of King, Priest, and Prophet together anointed by God, we read of none but Jesus Christ only. Among the Egyptians they were wont out of their Philosophers, their wise men, to choose their Priests, and out of their Priests to choose their Kings; and so whosoever was a King to them, was eminent first in wisdom, being a Philosopher, able to teach, and eminent in his Priestly office, and then eminent in his power, that he might be honoured by all people, as having those threefold eminences that was accounted the greatest eminency in the world, for those were the three great eminences, the eminency of wisdom to teach, and of Priesthood, and of Kingly power: Now Jesus Christ he was wonderful in all these; now that is the thing that I aim at to show in every particular of these Offices of Christ, how wonderful he was, and then (though but briefly) I shall set the beauty and excellency of Christ in his three Offices before you, and that shall be all that I intend to do at this time, and shall but be very brief in them too: For I told you in the opening of the Excellency of God, I did not intend to stand to open every particular Attribute at large, but only to set the Excellency of God before you briefly, so of Christ.