A85953:512
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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Yea, and thirdly, There is a great deal of misery upon thy soul, if thou knewest it; as, contrary to that light that he hath set up in thy understanding, there is blindness in thee, there is error in thee; contrary to that holiness that was at first in thy heart and soul, there is nothing but sin and wickedness, all the spans and seeds of all kind of sin is in thy heart; there is a great deal of that evil that is contrary to what thy soul was made withal at first, there is enmity in thy soul against God himself.
Yea, and thirdly, There is a great deal of misery upon thy soul, if thou knewest it; as, contrary to that light that hee hath set up in thy understanding, there is blindness in thee, there is errour in thee; contrary to that holiness that was at first in thy heart and soul, there is nothing but sin and wickedness, all the spauns and seeds of all kinde of sin is in thy heart; there is a great deal of that evil that is contrary to what thy soul was made withall at first, there is enmity in thy soul against God himself.
Yea, and fourthly, Thy soul is in a succourless, helpless, shiftless condition in respect of what thou art able to do, or what all the creatures in heaven or earth are able to do for thee; let all the Angels in heaven, and men in the world, join together to seek to do good to thy soul, they are not able to deliver thy soul from that evil that now it is in, and that it is in further danger of. And this is the reason of that phrase that you have in Luke 19.10. The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. We are all lost sheep going astray, and Jesus Christ came to seek and to save lost souls; Souls deprived of the glory of God, Souls wandering away from God, Souls filled with evil, Souls succourless, and helpless in regard of any ⟨p. 246⟩power in any creature in heaven and earth to save them: Christ beholding how such precious souls were every one of them lost, if he had not come to save them, he was pleased to come from heaven to seek and to save souls thus lost.