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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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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.
And then hee was in his humiliation,1 I say the pattern of the greatest self-denial that ever was, or ever can bee. God holds forth his own Son to bee the pattern of self-denial to all the world; the Lord sees how wee are altogether for our selves, how hard it is for us to deny our selves; Well, saith God, I will not onely require of you that you shall deny your selves for mee 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 hee had right to all things, hee shall empty, and deny himself to the extremity of all kinde of misery.
- 1Christ in suffering, a pattern of self-denial.
And then that that makes up all the wonder is this,1 that all this should be done for us, for such poor worms, for such vile base creatures as we are; why might not men and Angels have thought thus? why Lord, had it not been better for ten thousand thousand, and hundreds of thousands, and millions of such creatures to have perished to all eternity, than that thy Son should be brought so low, to suffer so as he did? But no, saith God, I will manifest a great wonder in the world in this, that all this shall be done and suffered for poor worms (men) in whose eternal