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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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14 And in this further, here was the most wonderful Argument of Gods hatred to sin1 that possibly can be imagined, and wonderfullest pattern & example of self-denial that ever was in the world, Christ was wonderful in this, in that in him there was held out the most wonderful Argument of Gods hatred of sin, as if God would say, I will set mine infinite wisdom on work to find out an Argument to manifest my hatred to sin; there could not have been a greater, an infinite wisdom could not have found a greater manifestation of the hatred of sin.
14 And in this further, here was the most wonderful Argument of Gods hatred to sin1 that possibly can be imagined, and wonderfullest pattern & example of self-denial that ever was in the world, Christ was wonderful in this, in that in him there was held out the most wonderful Argument of Gods hatred of sin, as if God would say, I will set mine infinite wisdome on work to finde out an Argument to manifest my hatred to sin; there could not have been a greater, an infinite wisdome could not have found a greater manifestation of the hatred of sin.
- 1In Christs suffering appears Gods hatred of sin.
And then he was in his humiliation,1 I say the pattern of the greatest self-denial that ever was, or ever can be. God holds forth his own Son to be the pattern of self-denial to all the world; the Lord sees how we are altogether for our selves, how hard it is for us to deny our selves; Well, saith God, I will not only require of you that you shall deny your selves for me as your duty, and bound as creatures to do it to your Creator, but I will send into the World such a pattern of self-denial, as it is impossible for men or Angels to imagine a more wonderful pattern of self-denial, My Son, that is equal with my self, to come in the form of a servant, although he had right to all things, he shall empty, and deny himself to the extremity of all kind of misery.