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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 5: The Fifth SERMON ON The Excellency of Christ.
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The Fifth SERMON ON The Excellency of Christ.
Isaiah 9.6. And his Name shall be called Wonderful.
Isaiah 9.6. And his Name shall bee called Wonderful.
The point that we are upon you may remember is this, That Jesus Christ is the great Wonder of the world; As is his Name, so is he Wonderful.
THe point that wee are upon you may remember is this, That Jesus Christ is the great Wonder of the world; As is his Name, so is hee Wonderful.
9 Ther• is yet more wonder in it if we consider that God the Father was well pleased with all this, it pleased him, so you may find in Isa. 53.10. It pleased him to bruise him. It pleased the Father; For God the Father taking such delight in his Son, and seeing him brought into such a low condition, not only to be in the form of a servant, but in the form (I say) and similitude of an evil servant, to be beaten, and so beaten by himself, and all this to please him, certainly there was some great matter in it, that God the Father should be well pleased with making his own Son to be a curse for mans sin, and yet this we find in Scripture, that it was a thing that well pleased