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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 4: The Fourth SERMON ON The Excellency of Christ.
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The next thing is, Christ is wonderful in his Humiliation; and indeed this may seem to be the greatest Wonder of all, at least to our sense it is, especially if we do understand what hath been said before of Christ, what a Person Christ is; now to hear what we shall hear of his Humiliation, will appear to be an amazing, and an astonishing Wonder.
The next thing is, Christ is wonderful in his Humiliation; and indeed this may seem to bee the greatest Wonder of all, at least to our sense it is, especially if wee do understand what hath been said before of Christ, what a Person Christ is; now to hear what wee shall hear of his Humiliation, will appear to bee an amazing, and an astonishing Wonder.
As first, The wonder of his Humiliation is in this, That Christ, God and man, as you have heard before, should have all the sins of all the elect ones from the beginning of the world, to the end of the world laid upon him. For such a one as Christ is, infinitely beloved of the Father, and equal with the Father, 1accounted it no robbery to be equal with God, yet that he should stand before God the Father with all the sins of the Elect charged upon him, so the Scripture tells us, 2 Cor. 5.21. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin: He hath made him to be sin for us; for Christ to be made a worm was a wonderful Humiliation, but for Christ to be made sin was a greater Humiliation than to be made a worm; surely this must needs be a wonder to all the Angels in heaven, for them to see such a one, whom they knew to be the eternal Son of God, equal with the Father, to stand before the Father clothed ⟨p. 123⟩at it were with all the sins of the Elect. We read in Zech. 3. a kind of type of this, in vers. 3. of Joshua the High Priest, he was clothed with filthy Garments, and stood before the Angel, so Jesus Christ stands clothed with filthy Garments, he that is clothed with Majesty and Glory, yet he must come and stand clothed with filthy Garments before the Father. For one to be clothed with filthy garments, and yet to be in some room alone, that no body should see him, is no great matter, but to see a great Prince to come out before the world clothed with filthy garments, it is a very great humiliation: But Christ that was infinitely above all the Princes in the world, he comes and stands before Men and Angels, yea before God himself clothed with these filthy garments. For a man to have sin upon him before other men it is no great matter, but for him to come into the presence of God with sin upon him, it is a terrible thing. But now the Son of God must do it, he comes into the presence of the Father, and stands with all the sins of the Elect upon him, what an object is here of Wonder? Luther calls Christ the greatest sinner that ever was in the world, I confess that is somewhat hard, for it was but charged upon him, but his meaning is only this that I am speaking of: