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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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But the Saints know that all is in God, all excellency in all creatures is in God, therefore when you look thus upon God, as having all good that all creatures have, and that in himself; and when you come thus to God as such a being so much above all creatures, then you have in some measure a right apprehension of God: And that is the fifth thing.
6 But sixthly, The Name of God is excellent above all: For not only all excellencies in the Creature are in him; but all those varieties of excellencies that are scattered up and ⟨p. 13⟩down severally in Creatures, are united into one excellency in him; for a water may have the quintessence of many herbs in it; there are many things in the water at that time; though but one drop of water, yet there are many things in it: So there is such an union of all excellencies in God, that I say it is but one in God; there is an indivisible union of all variety: Things that are various in the Creature, they are all united in one in God, that must needs be a glorious excellency indeed. If one man had all the beauty and strength, and all the wisdom that all the men in the world ever had, or have, and united into one, what beauty, what strength, what wisdom would that one man have! now it is so in God, that all beauty, and wisdom, and strength, are united into one excellency, so that God he is one otherwise than any other Creature can be one; other Creatures may be made one by composition, but now God he is not one by the union of many things together; for there is but one thing in God, God is but one, there is a variety, as we conceive, as the Sun when it shines upon different glasses, red, or blew, or yellow, it hath a variety, I but all this is but one Sun, so all the attributes of God that we speak divers times of, these are the several manifestations of that one excellency that there is in God, all united into one; therefore by this the Saints come to be the more happy, for they may not only enjoy all the good that there is in the Creature, but enjoy it all in one, and we say, the stronger is a thing, the more it is united; now in God all good whatsoever is united in one, all good in the Creature, yea and all good in himself, that is, all his attributes; so you must conceive of God; only the manifestation is divers; and therefore you must not conceive that there is any one thing in him more than another; you may not conceive of God, as if there were more mercy than justice, or more justice than mercy, or more of either of these, than there is of truth, wisdom, and holiness: