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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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Now though souls be for the present in a lost condition, yet there is a further loss of the soul than this; for if the soul be neglected here, it will be lost forever; there are many that are lost now for the present, and yet afterwards Christ finds them, and there is joy in heaven at the finding of them; but there is a loss that shall be eternal, and that loss is more dreadful than the former, yet the former hath the degree of it, but that the perfection of the former: Now the loss of the soul in hell consists in these three particulars.
Now though souls bee for the present in a lost condition, yet there is a further loss of the soul than this; for if the soul be neglected here, it will bee lost forever; there are many that are lost now for the present, and yet afterwards Christ findes them, and there is joy in heaven at the finding of them; but there is a loss that shall bee eternal, and that loss is more dreadful than the former, yet the former hath the degree of it, but that the perfection of the former: Now the loss of the soul in hell consists in these three particulars.
First, The full and perfect eternal rejection of the soul from God, and from all good in him together, with the fullness of all kind of evil that the soul is capable of; this is the condition of a lost soul that perishes.
First, The full and perfect eternal rejection of the soul from God, and from all good in him together, with the fulness of all kinde of evil that the soul is capable of; this is the condition of a lost soul that perishes.
Secondly, And then in the next place it consists in the making of this soul to be perfectly sensible of the loss of that good, and of all the evil it is possest withal, making of it perfectly sensible of it: Here men and women are in lost conditions, but they know it not, they are not sensible of it: But God will bring the soul into such a condition, as it shall be made perfectly sensible of the loss of all the good that it might have had, and of all the evil that is upon it.