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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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And then in the third place, Why, Christ may dye, and yet not suffer so much to make us wonder, many of the servants of God have died cruel deaths; But then in the third place, There is a greater wonder in C••ists humiliation, than in the sufferings of the servants of God, because though their bodies suffered, yet they had much freedom in their souls, they were filled with joy and comfort in the time of their sufferings, so it was in the Martyrs; Oh but it was otherwise with Christ, though he were the fountain of all consolation, yet Christ suffers in his soul, he was sorrowful in his soul to the very death, he gave his soul to be an offering for sin, and indeed the suffering of Christs soul, was the soul of his suffering, the chief of his suffering, when as Christ was in the Garden, there he acknowledges that his soul was compassed round about with sorrows,1 his soul was very sorrowful; and in another Evangelist ⟨p. 125⟩he began to be amazed, and a third Evangelist saith,2 he began to be filled with sorrow in his soul, and the very trouble of his soul was that that drew forth from him such a wonderful sweat as never was heard of in the world before, nor never since, nor never is like to be, that a man from distress and trouble of his soul should sweat so: Many a man when he is in fear and trouble of mind, he may sweat; but when did you ever hear of a man out of trouble of mind that did sweat blood, that blood should come and break through his skin, and run down upon him, and this through the trouble of his mind? for there was no bodily affliction upon Christ then, but merely the trouble of his Spirit, and he knowing what cup he was to drink, and the trouble that he suffered in his Soul, did cause the blood to break through his veins, and come to trickle down; and not some thin blood, for so I have read of one in Paris that was condemned to dye, and the very trouble of his spirit did cause some blood to come out of his body, but thin; but the Scripture tells us that there was clodders of blood; and when was this sweat? when he was abroad in the night time, and lay upon the ground, and in the Winter season: In a Winters night when he was abroad, and lay upon the ground, he sweat this sweat, and all from the trouble of his spirit: