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 4: The Fourth SERMON ON The Excellency of Christ.

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¹And then secondly, As the glory of Gods Attributes, so the glory of the great Counsels and Works of God, especially in the governing of man unto his eternal estate, that appears in Christ above all.

1The glory of Gods great works in bringing man to his eternal estate appears in Christ. Eph. 1.4.

:283p. 118–119

As the great Counsels of God in Election, We are chosen in Christ, the great Counsels and Works of God in Vocation, Justification, Adoption, Reconciliation, Sanctification, and Glorification, these are the great Works that God doth glorify himself in, these are the great things that the thoughts and counsels of God hath been from all eternity exercised about, whatsoever your thoughts are exercised about, yet I say, the thoughts and counsels of God have been exercised from all eternity about these great Works of his, Election, Vocation, Justification, Adoption, Reconciliation, Sanctification, Glorification, all these Works whereby he doth order and guide mankind unto an eternal estate. Now the glory of God in all these Works they ⟨p. 119⟩are in Christ, Christ he is the head of our Election, and all are chosen in him; what is Vocation but a calling unto Christ, and revealing Christ to the soul? And so Justification it is in Christ still: And we are made children, adopted in him, and reconciled in him, and sanctified through him, and are to be glorified through him; all these great Works about which the heart of God is so much busied, the glory of God in all these, it doth shine in the face of Christ, and without the knowledge of Christ we could never come to know any of these things. What could the heathen know of Gods eternal Election, or Vocation, or Justification, or Adoption, or Glorification, to speak such words to the Heathens as these are in reference to God, it would be barbarism; But now these are the great things of God that are revealed to Christians by Jesus Christ, we come to have all these glorious counsels of God in these great works of his to be opened to us, and Christ is wonderful in all them, and all those that did know what these things mean, they see the glory of God wonderfully in them.

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