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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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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 ⟨p. 248⟩Counsels of God about his works and ways that he hath had from all eternity to be revealed unto, so far as concerns it, and as any way may make it happy: To live to see what the ways of God have been from all eternity, and what they shall be to all eternity, and that for the good of this soul, that it may be for ever in his presence, and to stand and look upon his face, and see him as the portion of it, Oh this must needs be a glorious thing: Certainly if the presence of God put such a glory upon the heavens, it must needs put abundance of glory upon the soul that shall stand immediately always in his presence: To have eternal communion with God, that is, to have the embracements of God, embracing the soul, and delighting himself in it above all other his works, but only the Angels and his Son; delighting, I say, himself in the soul, and embracing it, communicating and letting out himself in all his lustre and glory when he shall have enlarged the soul to be able to the uttermost to receive in that glory that he hath to communicate: And for him to converse with the souls of men to all eternity in a familiar way, as one friend with another; and for the soul to be letting out its self again to God, for that is in communion, there is Gods letting out himself to it, and its letting out its self again to God; now, I say, it is the greatest delight to what God hath in himself, his Son, and Spirit, and Angels, the letting out of himself to the souls of men (those that shall be saved:) And on the other side, it must needs be an infinite delight to the soul always to be letting out it self upon God, as now, what delight do men take in eating and drinking?
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 hee 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 minde of God, to have all the glorious