A85953:545
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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Secondly, There shall be no Mediator between God and the lost soul, none to mediate for it: Now, had not we a Mediator between God and us, we were all certainly lost; but now for the soul that is once lost eternally, Jesus Christ will never tender up any work of mediation for such a soul; that is certainly gone and lost irrecoverably. And then further, the gates of mercy will be for ever shut against such a soul.
Secondly, There shall bee no Mediatour between God and the lost soul, none to mediate for it: Now, had not wee a Mediatour between God and us, wee were all certainly lost; but now for the soul that is once lost eternally, Jesus Christ will never tender up any work of mediation for such a soul; that is certainly gone and lost irrecoverably. And then further, the gates of mercy will bee for ever shut against such a soul.
Now for the further opening and setting forth the dreadfulness of the loss of the soul, there are divers aggravations wherein the misery of it doth further appear.
The first aggravation is this, If the soul be thus lost, then the body is, and will be lost also: It will bring the body into the very same lost condition of misery that it is in its self, so far as it is capable of misery; and that upon these two grounds.
The first aggravation is this, If the soul bee thus lost, then the body is, and will be lost also: It will bring the body into the very same lost condition of misery that it is in its self, so far as it is capable of misery; and that upon these two grounds.