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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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And then the continual exercise that the soul shall be busied in, to be for ever blessing, and magnifying, and praising and worshipping of God, and receiving in from God, and letting out its self to God: The eternal Sabbath that it shall keep, and then the eternal rest that the soul shall have, when it comes to God, it comes there to its Centre, there it hath perfect peace and rest, and can never have trouble further.
And then the continual exercise that the soul shall bee busied in, to bee for ever blessing, and magnifying, and praising and worshipping of God, and receiving in from God, and letting out its self to God: The eternal Sabbath that it shall keep, and then the eternal rest that the soul shall have, when it comes to God, it comes there to its Center, there it hath perfect peace and rest, and can never have trouble further.
Yea, and it shall live in God; not only God live in it, but it shall, I say, live in God, as (though the similitude comes short of it) the fish swimming in the Sea; so the soul shall be swimming in the infinite Ocean of the excellency of the great God. It is said of John, 1that he was in the Spirit on the Lords day; so the soul shall live in God: Our life is hid with Christ in God: But our life shall be plain and apparent, not hidden, but apparent before Angels, and all the rest of the blessed, and so our lives shall be after another manner than now they are. Now to open every one of these things would be very large, so that it suffices now only to present them to you, to show in a short view the good of the soul in the full enjoyment of God, and what it shall have from him, that so you may see what the loss of the soul means. Now if these things be true and real, Oh what a dreadful thing is it for a man to lose his soul, for a man to come to lose all this good, that others that have souls like unto him shall come to enjoy, and that he might have enjoyed as well as others! If there were no more in the loss of the soul but this, to be cast away from the good that it is capable of, it might show unto us this loss to be very dreadful. It was a speech of Austin long since speaking of that place where Dives did desire Lazarus to come with one drop of water to cool his tormented tongue, saith he, If there should be but one drop of heavenly felicity let into Hell, it would quench all the fire of Hell presently: And Chrysostom