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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 4: The Fourth SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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As every soul here by nature is deprived of all that good in which it was created, and secondly, as it doth wander from, and is at enmity against God: so when the soul is lost eternally, then it is perfectly against God, and doth hate and blaspheme God for ever: Thou that art a wicked man, thou wilt sin, but when God hath cast thee away from ⟨p. 255⟩him eternally, then, as I may say, thou shalt have thy belly full of sin, thou then shalt be fully given up unto sin, Rev. 16.11. And they blasphemed the God of Heaven, because of their pains and sorrows: Now that is spoken of the beast, of Antichrist; but if men here blaspheme God because of pains, what shall they do that are damned in Hell? they that shall have the vials of Gods wrath poured out upon them? But you will ask, how doth it appear that for the wicked to be given up to sin is such an evil unto them, whereas here it is their delight to commit sin? To which I answer, though they love sin, and though sin be their delight here, yet hereafter, when they are cast off from God for ever, then they shall not find that delight in sin, as now they do: as to give you it in an example, put a fish into a pot of water, and the fish doth swim, and play, and delight therein, because it is the proper element of the fish to be in the water; but now, if you do but put fire under that pot of water wherein the fish doth play and take delight, why then that which was before the delight and element of the fish, thereby becomes its pain and torture: so, though sin in this life is delightful unto wicked men, because it is their proper element to be in sin in this life, yet hereafter sin shall be their pain, because then there shall be mixed with it the wrath of God, which will make it pain and torture. Again, the loss of the soul consists in this, when the soul is fully possessed of all the evils that are contrary to all the good it is capable of: Thus shall it be with the lost soul eternally:
As every soul here by nature is deprived of all that good in which it was created, and secondly, as it doth wander from, and is at enmity against God: so when the soul is lost eternally, then it is perfectly against God, and doth hate and blaspheme God for ever: Thou that art a wicked man, thou wilt sin, but when God hath cast thee away from ⟨p. 255⟩