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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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A. Why? if Christ reveals to your souls those great things of eternal life that he hath heard from the Father, certainly you are the friends of Jesus Christ; oh that we could exercise our faith in this Prophetical Office of Christ, in which he is wonderful; when you would exercise faith upon Christ, exercise your faith upon him as a Prophet; Lord, I am weak and dull, but Lord thou hast anointed thine own Son to reveal unto me thy will, as much as concerns my everlasting good; look upon Jesus Christ as the wonder of the world in all these things, in his Kingly, Priestly, and Prophetical Office, and then do you honour the Son of God as the Son of God, when you look thus upon him. And ⟨p. 94⟩then another Scripture we have in Joh. 17.8. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them, and have known surely that I come out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. When I was in thy bosom from eternity, thou gavest me such words, and diddest put this upon me, that I should reveal thy will to such and such, and every particular one was mentioned unto Christ, whom such words should be made known too; saith Christ, I have done it, I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me, and therefore Christ he is called the Word, especially in regard of his Prophetical Office, The Word was made Flesh, the Word was God; Christ comes to reveal the mind of his Father unto the children of men; as by the words of a man, the mind and counsels, and thoughts of a man come to be made known, so Christ was the Word of God; though I say not that this is all the sense from that, but there is a higher sense; but this is one thing aimed at, that by him the counsels of God come to be made known to the children of men, therefore Christ saith, That no man knows the Father but the Son, and him to whom the Son shall reveal him: He comes to reveal God to the children of men. And that may be a third particular.
A. Why? if Christ reveals to your souls those great things of eternal life that he hath heard from the Father, certainly you are the friends of Jesus Christ; oh that wee could exercise our faith in this Prophetical Office of Christ, in which he is wonderful; when you would exercise faith upon Christ, exercise your faith upon him as a Prophet; Lord, I am weak and dull, but Lord thou hast anoynted thine own Son to reveal unto me thy will, as much as concerns my everlasting good; look upon Jesus Christ as the wonder of the world in all these things, in his Kingly, Priestly, and Prophetical Office, and then doe you honour the Son of God as the Son of God, when you look thus upon him. And