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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, For the rejection of the soul from God so as to be deprived of all the good there is in God, and that it is capable of; Now for the understanding of the evil of this, we must inquire what is that good that the souls of men are capable of, or else we cannot come to understand what an evil thing it is to lose it.
First, For the rejection of the soul from God so as to bee deprived of all the good there is in God, and that it is capable of; Now for the understanding of the evil of this, wee must inquire what is that good that the souls of men are capable of, or else wee cannot come to understand what an evil thing it is to lose it.
Now for the good that the soul is capable of, I will but only name some heads unto you, for in a Treatise that some of you have in your hands, of Moses looking to the recompense of reward, there are the principal heads of the good and excellency that the soul is capable of, and shall be blessed in heaven eternally with: And the apprehending the loss of these things, will discover much, The first part of the evil of the loss of the soul. I will but in a very brief way present them unto you.
Now for the good that the soul is capable of, I will but onely name some heads unto you, for in a Treatise that some of you have in your hands, of Moses looking to the recompense of reward, there are the principal heads of the good and excellency that the soul is capable of, and shall bee blessed in heaven eternally with: And the apprehending the loss of these things, will discover much, The first part of the evil of the loss of the soul. I will but in a very brief way present them unto you.
Why the Glory of God upon the soul, the Image of God, the Life of God, the Divine nature that the soul is capable of: Now for the soul never to live the Life of God, nor to have his Image, nor any of the Glory of Gold upon it, this is a fearful evil to those that know the excellency of these things; of the blessed vision of God in heaven, to see him that is the infinite first-being of all things, to see him as he is, to see him that hath all excellency in him, and to see all the good there is in God, as the good of the soul. The soul is capable of the understanding of the mind of God, to have all the glorious