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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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And further, The excellency of mans soul, 1it will appear in the excellent endowments of it: Look upon the soul of man in his fallen estate, and what admirable endowments some men have, as in the excellent knowledge that some men have of Arts and Sciences, the knowledge of the heavens; it is a very glorious thing that they are able to ⟨p. 214⟩ascend up in their understanding, and to know all the motions of the heavens, and can tell you to a minute of an hour what kind of motions there will be, as appears plainly by eclipses: The arts of Navigation, that they can compass the world up and down that way: If it were but in these sensible things that we see so much art in, as in these mighty buildings, which shows that a man out of a deal of rubbish can raise and erect such a building as this is, this shows the excellency of mans soul; and if there be so much excellency in it naturally, that it can do such things, then what can it be raised unto, and enabled unto by a divine power? What can it do when it is enlarged by grace, and made partaker of the Divine nature?
And further, The excellency of mans soul, 1it will appear in the excellent endowments of it: Look upon the soul of man in his fallen estate, and what admirable endowments some men have, as in the excellent knowledge that some men have of Arts and Sciences, the knowledge of the heavens; it is a very g•orious thing that they are able to ⟨p. 214⟩ascend up in their understanding, and to know all the motions of the heavens, and can tell you to a minute of an hour what kinde of motions there will bee, as appears plainly by eclipses: The arts of Navigation, that they can compass the world up and down that way: If it were but in these sensible things that wee see so much art in, as in these mighty buildings, which shows that a man out of a deal of rubbish can raise and erect such a building as this is, this shows the excellency of mans soul; and if there bee so much excellency in it naturally, th•t it can do such things, then what can it bee raised unto, and inabled unto by a divine power? What can it do when it is inlarged by grace, and made partaker of the Divine nature?