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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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Indeed God may manifest himself unto the Creature, more in one, than in the other, but as they are in his own being they are not, only ⟨p. 14⟩one as much as the other, but they are all but one thing, only several manifestations, as but one Sun that hath divers reflections by divers glasses; so all Gods attributes are but one excellency that is in him; therefore his Name is excellent above all things, because he is but one God in this manner.
Indeed God may manifest himself unto the Creature, more in one, than in the other, but as they are in his own beeing they are not, onely ⟨p. 14⟩one as much as the other, but they are all but one thing, onely several manifestations, as but one Sun that hath divers reflections by divers glasses; so all Gods attributes are but one excellency that is in him; therefore his Name is excellent above all things, because hee is but one God in this manner.
7 Further, Not only all good and excellency is in God, but all possible good, what can possibly be imagined (as we know that the power of God that made the world, could make thousands of worlds) all this is in him, and infinitely in him, When we do speak of any thing to be in God, we must be sure that we do not limit our thoughts, as when we speak of God to be a great God, do not limit it, he is great, but infinitely so; when we speak of his wisdom, he is wise, but infinitely wise, and so of his holiness, and justice, and truth, and knowledge; all must be looked upon without any bounds whatsoever; in the Creature there are such and such things, but they are all limited by their causes, but God having no causes at all to limit him, therefore he is infinite, whatsoever is in him it is infinitely in him, whatsoever is in him, is not only infinite in the kind, as there is all the wisdom and holiness that can be; but I say, it is absolutely infinite; as it is in him, it is so infinite, that there is no kind of being but is included within it; speak but any one thing of God, I say, it is not only infinite in the kind, but so as it includes whatsoever hath being, in the infinite Ocean of being that is in himself; we are very ready when we look upon God to have limited thoughts, and therein we bring him down to the Creature; this is the very reason why God doth hate Images so much as he doth, because that Images do make a kind of a representation of him, as though he were finite; as Papists, they tell us they think not that such an Image is God, I, but being put in mind of God by such an Image, there is a kind of limiting the infiniteness that is in God; and therefore God hates it, and will not have that infinite excellency of his to be represented by any Image whatsoever;