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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 1 › Sermon 1: The First SERMON ON The Nature of God.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, He is, and there is none else besides him. The truth is, we can scarce say that any thing is but God, Exod. 3.14. When God came to Moses to send him to Pharaoh, and Moses would know the Name of God, he bid him say, I am that I am; I am hath sent me; and God only describes himself thus unto Moses, I am, I am a being; and so the name Jehovah is a name proper to God, that signifies Gods being: Now might Moses say, Lord, is this a name that will distinguish thee from any thing else, to say I am? cannot any man say so, I am? but yet God gives this name of his, as his proper name merely, I am a being, and I am that being that I am; and that is all the name God would tell Moses, when Moses did desire to know so much of him, and how he might express him that did send him,1 I am that I am:
First, Hee is, and there is none else besides him. The truth is, wee can scarce say that any thing is but God, Exod. 3.14. When God came to Moses to send him to Pharaoh, and Moses would know the Name of God, hee bid him say, I am that I am; I am hath sent mee; and God only describes himself thus unto Moses, I am, I am a being; and so the name Jehovah is a name proper to God, that signifies Gods being: Now might Moses say, Lord, is this a name that will distinguish thee from any thing else, to say I am? cannot any man say so, I am? but yet God gives this name of his, as his proper name meerly, I am a being, and I am that being that I am; and that is all the name God would tell Moses, when Moses did desire to know so much of him, and how hee might express him that did send him,1 I am that I am:
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