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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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Fifthly, and then lastly, There is certainly a spirit in man beyond his bodily substance: for we know that there are real pains and torments upon a mans spirit. The burdens of conscience in the reflex act that a mans conscience hath upon himself summoning of him to appear before the great God: Though a mans body be in never such health, and hath all outward accommodations about him, as music, good cheer, friends, estate, yet there is that horror and torment in his spirit, sometimes through the consciousness of the guilt of sin, that he is not able to bear: nay were there not somewhat beyond this bodily substance, certainly this could never be; verily then there is a spirit in man, and hence therefore you see that there is somewhat doth concern you all beyond your present, outward, and bodily condition. Let no man think that he hath provided well for himself, when he hath provided money, and house, and lands, and good cheer, and ⟨p. 206⟩clothes, and such kind of things; do not think that thou art happy in that: for these are things that concern thy outward man, there is still another substance in thee that thou art to look after, that takes little notice of such things as these are.
Fifthly, and then lastly, There is certainly a spirit in man beyond his bodily substance: for wee know that there are real pains and torments upon a mans spirit. The burdens of conscience in the reflex act that a mans conscience hath upon himself summoning of him to appear before the great God: Though a mans body be in never such health, and hath all outward accommodations about him, as musick, good cheer, friends, estate, yet there is that horror and torment in his spirit, sometimes through the consciousness of the guilt of sin, that hee is not able to bear: nay were there not somewhat beyond this bodily substance, certainly this could never bee; verily then there is a spirit in man, and hence therefore you see that there is somewhat doth concern you all beyond your present, outward, and bodily condition. Let no man think that hee hath provided well for himself, when hee hath provided mony, and house, and lands, and good chear, and ⟨p. 206⟩cloaths, and such kinde of things; do not think that thou art happy in that: for these are things that concern thy outward man, there is still another substance in thee that thou art to look after, that takes little notice of such things as these are.