Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…

Name: Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…
Author: Jeremiah Burroughs

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.

Jeremiah Burroughs 1599–1646London: 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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:183p. 78¶15

15 Further, Christ is King from everlasting to everlasting, for ever; Thy throne O Lord endures for ever and ever: other Kings are but of yesterday, and they are dead and gone; but it is not so with our King, the Lord is King for ever.

:184p. 78–79¶16

16 Further, he is wonderful in this, he sits upon his Fathers Throne now at this time. You have such a place in the third of the Revelations, vers. 21. where Christ promises to those that over-come, that they shall sit upon his throne, even as he over-came, and is set down with his Father in his throne. The administration of all things in the World now, I say, it is given to Christ jointly with his Father, Jesus Christ God-Man, sits upon the Throne of his Father, not only the second Person in Trinity, but Christ God-Man sits upon the Throne of his Father, & together with his Father doth order and govern all things; here is a height of glory that no creature else can be capable of; the Humane Nature of Christ being joined in one Person with the Divine, so it comes to have of the glory of this Kingly power upon it, that it may be said, That Person that is Man, doth now at this time sit upon the Throne of his Father, and together with his Father doth administer his power; so that the Apostle speaks of a subjection of Christ that shall be afterwards unto the Father more than is now,¹ in 1 Cor. 15.25. it is a text certainly that hath a great mystery in it, and is very hard to understand, For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet; the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, for he hath put all things under his feet; but when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him; And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. When all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son himself shall be subject. It seems there is not that subjection now as shall be hereafter; Christ now sits upon the Throne of his Father, and rules together with his Father, but there is a

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