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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 2: The Second SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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The Magistrate looks unto your peace, the Lawyer to your estates, the Physician to your bodies, and the Divine to your souls; though outward respects may be given more, and should be to the Magistrate, yet certainly the employment about immortal souls, must needs be the honourablest in the world: It is the honour of the Angels, in Psa. 91. to take care of the bodies of the Saints: If it be the glory of Angels to take care of Gods people, what glory is it that God puts upon the Ministers of the Gospel to look to souls? and truly, in this thing God hath put more glory upon Men, than upon Angels; for God hath not made it to be his set ordinance that Angels should convert souls, but he hath made it so that men should be made use of to convert souls by preaching the word; and let all the Angels in Heaven show an employment so honourable as this employment is. You would account it a great honour to have the Body of a Prince to watch over; Surely there is no immortal soul but is more precious than all the Princes in the world; and if the Lord should give unto you the care of all the Creatures, except the souls of men, it were not such an honourable work as to give you the care of any one immortal soul; saith the Apostle, in 2 Cor. 4. the beginning, Let a man esteem of us as the dispensers of the Mysteries of Christ: Let them esteem of us; it is true, Ministers of the Gospel should be willing to lie under the feet of any to do good to their ⟨p. 225⟩souls; but because we know that it is a great hinderance to the work of their Ministry, when brutish carnal spirits have low and mean esteem of their work; therefore we find that the Apostle would ever be setting up the honour of this work, Let a man esteem of us as the dispensers of the Mysteries of Christ, and in 1 Thes. 5.12, 13. We beseech you brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, and to esteem of them very highly in love for their works sake; And so in Heb. 13.17. Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit your selves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account: that they may do it with joy, and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you. Oh it is a sad thing!