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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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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.
First, Because the body all the time a man doth live in this world, it was the only or most immediate instrument that the soul had to work and to sin by: And certainly God must needs hate that body, and curse it, that did belong to the soul, because it was the only instrument of the soul to sin by.
First, Because the body all the time a man doth live in this world, it was the onely or most immediate instrument that the soul had to work and to sin by: And certainly God must needs hate that body, and curse it, that did belong to the soul, because it was the onely instrument of the soul to sin by.
Secondly, Miserable must the body also be, because when such a lost soul shall be united unto the body, the very extremity of the soul must needs bring misery upon the body also; as thus, When Christ had the apprehensions of his Fathers wrath and displeasure in his soul, how did it work upon his body even so as to cause even clodders of blood to fall from him? Now, what caused this pain in his body, but the terrors of God in his soul? and if it was so with Jesus Christ, that had but sin imputed unto him, then certainly the body of a damned creature must needs be in very great and dreadful torment, to which this soul is united. If a holy man cried out, Thy arrows stick fast in me,