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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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Why natural life hath more excellency in it than any creature that hath no life. I remember Austin saith of a Fly, because it hath life, that it hath more excellency in it than the Sun its self, because though the Sun be a glorious creature, yet it hath no life in it; life in the meanest creature hath a greater excellency than any thing else that hath not life.
Why natural life hath more excellency in it than any creature that hath no life. I remember Austin saith of a Flye, because it hath life, that it hath more excellency in it than the Sun its self, because though the Sun bee a glorious creature, yet it hath no life in it; life in the meanest creature hath a greater excellency than any thing else that hath not life.
But now the soul hath the highest natural life that is, and capable of the highest happiness that any creature is capable of, and therefore more excellent than all the world; But that we shall come too in its order.
But now the soul hath the highest natural life that is, and capable of the highest happiness that any creature is capable of, and therefore more excellent than all the world; But that wee shall come too in its order.
The excellency of the soul may be discovered, first, In the relation it hath to God, 1God doth challenge a peculiar relation to the spirits of men; and therefore in Heb. 12.9. •od is called the Father of spirits, Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the F•ther of spirits and live? As if God did not so much look after, and regard your bodies, the outward man, but he is the Father of spirits. And in Zeck. 12.1. There is likewise an expression to the same purpose, That God did form the spirit of man within him: