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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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Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God Almighty, who would not fear thee, O thou King of Saints! The great things that Christ doth in the world towards his Churches, are wonderful, and the great esteem his Saints have of him, they account all things as dung and dross for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
And he shall be wonderful eternally hereafter in the highest Heavens, and there he will be the matter of the wonder of all the Angels and Saints; and the matter of the admiration, and the praises that God shall have to all eternity, it shall be from what the Angels and Saints do see in Jesus Christ; therefore surely he will be wonderful in Heaven.
And hee shall bee wonderful eternally hereafter in the highest Heavens, and there hee will bee the matter of the wonder of all the Angels and Saints; and the matter of the admiration, and the praises that God shall have to all eternity, it shall bee from what the Angels and Saints do see in Jesus Christ; therefore surely hee will bee wonderful in Heaven.
And then wonderful, when the understandings of the Saints shall be elevated to the highest pitch that they are capable of: sometimes we do wonder at things, because of our ignorance; ignorant people will wonder almost at any thing; at the works of Arts and Sciences, they wonder, because they know but little, but now that, that the most understanding man in the world shall wonder at, certainly it hath some great excellency in it: Now Christ shall not be the wonder of the Saints only while they are here in in this world, but when they shall be in Heaven, and have their understandings enlightened and enlarged to the height that possibly they can be enlarged to, and yet even then Christ shall be their wonder, and they shall wonder at Christ more than they do now abundantly: Certainly that hath real excellency in it indeed, and great excellency, that the more understanding a man is, the more he shall admire at it: perhaps poor people they may wonder at some men for their parts, yet if they had any great understanding themselves, they would see such a mans parts had little in them; but if a man had such parts, that the more