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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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4 And especially, it will make the Prophetical Office of Christ wonderful, if we add to this a fourth consideration, ⟨p. 96⟩that these things are not revealed to the wisest and the great ones of the world,1 but to such men and women that ordinarily have the least understanding in the things of the world, those men that have the dullest capacity to understand the reason of things in the world, those that are the most ignorant people in the world, why Jesus Christ chooses out them, and makes them to be apprehensive of the mysteries of the Gospel, such things as Angels themselves desire to pry into. 2Here is a wonder, that such poor, weak, dull, ignorant creatures, sometimes that can scarce be able to speak two or three sentences in good sense together to a man, yet that they should have the clear understanding of the chief mysteries in the Gospel, and such things as Angels desire to pry into, here is a wonderful work, and therefore we read in Matth. 21.15. when the poor children came to understand somewhat of Christ, When the chief Priests and Scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the Temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David,3 they were sore displeased. Mark how this is joined to the wonderful things, they saw the wonderful things that Christ did, and the children crying in the Temple, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were displeased. It is one of the most wonderful things in the world to see that sometimes poor young children, and such as understand but very little in the matters of the world, and yet that these shall come to understand the deepest mysteries of godliness, those things that exercise the understanding of Angels, and shall exercise them to all eternity, yet poor children and youths shall come to understand these things further than the great Rabbis and Doctors of the world, is not this a wonderful thing in the dispensation of the Prophetical Office of Christ? You make this use when you see poor youths come to have understanding in the great things of the Gospel, you think surely it is but a conceit: Oh, but rather make this use, let your thoughts be carried to admire at the wonderful dispensation of the Prophetical Office of Jesus Christ; and so in