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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 6: The Sixth SERMON ON The Excellency of Christ.
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he brings us news of a strange God, and the like: so these are things that people are not acquainted withal, and so they cast them off, and despise: but mark, saith the Text, Take heed, beware lest this come upon you, that you shall behold and wonder, and despise and perish too, for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you: there shall be the great Counsels of God revealed in your days, and in your Congregations, there shall be revealed those Counsels of God, whereby God intends to save many souls; and here and there God will make known these things to save poor souls, but you in the mean time being conceited of your own understandings, or your own Civil Righteousness, ⟨p. 154⟩that you are not so bad as others, and that you are in a good case, and in a good condition all this while, and upon a conceit, you hear, and wonder, and despise, but you shall perish, and shall never come to believe those great things that God in your days shall reveal for the salvation of the souls of others; and this is a most dreadful curse that is upon the hearts of many men and women that hear the great things of the Gospel; as it is said in the second of the Acts, that they spake the wonderful things of God, and yet there was some that did but mock; this is the condition of some, that their spirits secretly despise and contemn those things that they should adore; such things as upon the hearing they should even fall down upon their faces, and adore God in the beholding of them, and yet I say, slighting of them, and resting to their own ways, and conceits, here is the curse of God upon their hearts, that though they hear them, yet they shall not believe them, I work a work in your days, a work that you sha•l in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you, saith the Holy Ghost, this Scripture is very much fulfilled in Congregations where the Gospel comes to be preached.
hee brings us news of a strange God, and the like: so these are things that people are not acquainted withall, and so they cast them off, and despise: but mark, saith the Text, Take heed, beware lest this come upon you, that you shall behold and wonder, and despise and perish too, for I work a work in your daies, a work which you shall in no wise beleeve, though a man declare it unto you: there shall bee the great Counsels of God revealed in your daies, and in your Congregations, there shall bee revealed those Counsels of God, whereby God intends to save many souls; and here and there God will make known these things to save poor souls, but you in the mean time being conceited of your own understandings, or your own Civil Righteousness,