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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 1 › Sermon 1: The First SERMON ON The Nature of God.
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Fourthly (for I intend but merely to present the chief things of the excellency of God before you, and not to stand handling of these at large, for every one of them might require a large tractate, but now only to present before you what a God it is that you have to deal with) God is a Being that is All-sufficient in himself; He stands in no need of any creature; in Acts 17.25. verse. He hath need of nothing, of none of us, he hath enough within himself; before the world was, God was as blessed in himself as now he is; there can be nothing added to him, there is such an excellency even in Gods being its self, that there can be nothing added to him; we are poor creatures, that stand in need of a thousand things continually, the air to breathe in, the earth to bear us, fire to warm us, clothes to cover us, meat and drink, a thousand things; we stand in need of the meanest creature, and if God should take away the use of some mean contemptible creature, our lives would be made miserable to us; but that is the excellency of Gods being that he hath need of nothing, he hath all within himself, all the creatures in heaven and earth, cannot ⟨p. 10⟩add to him; no if there were ten thousand worlds more, although God did possess them all, yet they would not add one whit unto what is in God himself; therefore though the Lord hath made the heaven and earth,1 and all things therein, yet we must not think that God is ever a whit the better for these things, or hath the more glory; he had as much glory and blessedness in himself, as now he hath, or can have; when all the Angels and Saints shall be eternally blessing God in heaven, yet they can add nothing to Gods glory: We say the Sun is a glorious creature, but doth that add any light to the Sun? so for Saints and Angels to be praising and blessing God, what doth that add to God? And in this the Name of God is excellent.
Fourthly (for I intend but meerly to present the chief things of the excellency of God before you, and not to stand handling of these at large, for every one of them might require a large tractate, but now onely to present before you what a God it is that you have to deal with) God is a Being that is All-sufficient in himself; Hee stands in no need of any creature; in