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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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First, The loss of the soul it is first in the privation of it of all the good and excellency that the soul is capable of, the privation of the true good that the soul was made for.
Secondly, It consists in its departing and wandering from God: As a sheep is said to be a lost sheep that wanders up and down in the wilderness; so that is a lost soul that wanders away from God the fountain of all good.
Secondly, It consists in its departing and wandring from God: As a sheep is said to bee a lost sheep that wanders up and down in the wilderness; so that is a lost soul that wanders away from God the fountain of all good.
Thirdly, It consists in the subjecting of it to that misery and evil that is contrary to what good it is capable of.
And then fourthly, and lastly, in the succourless and helpless condition that it is brought into; we use the phrase of Lost to all these things; when a man hath lost his estate, we account such a man as a lost man; and when a man is brought into a great deal of misery, that heretofore was in a great deal of happiness, we account such a man to be a lost man; but especially when a man is succourless and helpless, when he hath no way to help and relieve himself, then he is a lost man indeed: And according to the degrees of these four things then a soul may be said to be lost. And here for the present every man and woman's soul in the world by nature is a lost soul.