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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 3: The Third SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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That the loss of this soul is a most dreadful loss. Doct 2
Skin for skin, yea all that a man hath will he give for his life; Even the Devil himself could say so. The loss of bodily life we account a great evil, and therefore the Scripture calls Death by the name of the King of Terrors; and is it so great an evil to lose a bodily life, to have the soul and body but separated? Is the face of a bodily death so ghastly? Oh how great an evil, and how ghastly is the face of the eternal death, and the loss of the immortal soul? This Point my brethren, is a Point of exceeding great concernment to understand; we shall therefore,
Skin for skin, yea all that a man hath will hee give for his life; Even the Devil himself could say so. The loss of bodily life wee account a great evil, and therefore the Scripture calls Death by the name of the King of Terrours; and is it so great an evil to lose a bodily life, to have the soul and body but separated? Is the face of a bodily death so gastly? Oh how great an evil, and how gastly is the face of the eternal death, and the loss of the immortal soul? This Point my brethren, is a Point of exceeding great concernment to understand; wee shall therefore,
First, Inquire what we mean by the loss of the soul, or when may the soul be said to be lost?
First, Inquire what wee mean by the loss of the soul, or when may the soul bee said to bee lost?