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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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You will say, If God himself must be the Executioner, and come and lay his hand upon him, he will lay his hand gently upon his own Son. Nay, when Jesus Christ the Son of God came to take our sins upon him, the Father would not spare him one whit, but lets out the fullness of Justice upon him, lets out his Justice to the full, Rom. 8.32. it is said, That God spared not his own Son, certainly if God would have spared any, one would have thought it should have been his Son: Oh here behold the Justice of God the Father, that when his own Son takes sin upon him, and that by imputation, he must pay to the uttermost farthing to Justice, yea though he prayed with strong cryings and tears, as in Heb. 5.7. Though it is true, the Father did carry him through, yet in this God would not spare him, notwithstanding any of his cries, but he must suffer to the uttermost, and pay the uttermost farthing that Divine Justice did require for the satisfying of it for mans sins. Many poor creatures think that having to deal with God who is a merciful God, though they have the guilt of great sins upon them, yet if they cry out to God for mercy, that God will spare them; why, art thou dearer to God than Jesus Christ was, thy sins are thine own, his was but by imputation, yet when he cried, he must not be spared? What thoughts must the Angels in Heaven have upon this when they see him whom they knew to be the eternal Son of God under the hand of the Father, and the Father not so much as to spare him in any thing? Certainly if we do not know these things, or believe them, if we think to put off God lightly, ⟨p. 128⟩if we think that a few cries to God at last will be enough to cause God to spare us, and pass by all our sins, do but know God in Christ, and a thousand of thy vain thoughts about God, and the pacifying God for thy sin, will vanish away and come to nothing, did we but know God aright in Jesus Christ.
You will say, If God himself must bee the Executioner, and come and lay his hand upon him, hee will lay his hand gently upon his own Son. Nay, when Jesus Christ the Son of God came to take our sins upon him, the Father would not spare him one whit, but lets out the fulness of Justice upon him, lets out his Justice to the full,