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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 3 › Sermon 1: The First SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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First, That there is in every man a soul, a spiritual substance, besides what is visible and sensible.
And secondly, That this soul of man is more worth than all the world, it hath that excellency, that if a man gains all the world, and loses that, when he hath cast up his account, he may put his gains in his eye, he shall find himself a miserable creature.
And secondly, That this soul of man is more worth than all the world, it hath that excellency, that if a man gains all the world, and loses that, when hee hath cast up his account, hee may put his gains in his eye, hee shall finde himself a miserable creature.
We might make more divisions, or subdivisions of the words, but I will content my self only with those two things, and speak chiefly to the latter. Now to make way for that, I will speak a little of the former, What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul? his Soul.
Wee might make more divisions, or subdivisions of the words, but I will content my self onely with those two things, and speak chiefly to the latter. Now to make way for that, I will speak a little of the former, What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul? his Soul.