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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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Seneca hath such an expression concerning the Heavens: Oh the Heavens are a wonderful spectacle, and a spectacle fit for a reasonable creature to be employed about! Though we should get little benefit by knowing the Motions of the Heavens, the Sun, Moon, and Stars, yet the beauty and excellency that is there, and the wonderful work of God in the Heavens, it cannot but take a rational creature: Now, if the wonderful work of God in the Heavens be such, as it must needs take a rational creature: Oh what is the wonderful work of God in Jesus Christ! therefore let us make it the chief of our study, to study the Lord Jesus.
Seneca hath such an expression concerning the Heavens: Oh the Heavens are a wonderful spectacle, and a spectacle fit for a reasonable creature to bee imployed about! Though wee should get little benefit by knowing the Motions of the Heavens, the Sun, Moon, and Stars, yet the beauty and excellency that is there, and the wonderful work of God in the Heavens, it cannot but take a rational creature: Now, if the wonderful work of God in the Heavens bee such, as it must needs take a rational creature: Oh what is the wonderful work of God in Jesus Christ! therefore let us make it the chief of our study, to study the Lord Jesus.
Luther hath an expression to the same purpose, O saith he, I vehemently, I extremely am displeased with my self, and displease my self, yea (saith he) I hate my self, because I cannot get that great benefit, that great work that there is in mans Redemption, because I cannot get it to be transfused into my very bones and marrow; I would fain get it in there. Saint Paul, in Gal. 1.15, 16. said, he was separated from his Mothers womb, and called by Grace, and had Christ revealed in him. O blessed is that soul that the Lord hath separated for himself, that Jesus Christ might be revealed in it, that is a blessed soul: — You know ⟨p. 165⟩how Paul accounted the knowledge of Christ, The excellent knowledge, the excellency of knowledge, and accounted all things dung and dross in comparison; and so David, in