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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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It may be thou hearest a Minister speak of the loss of the ⟨p. 261⟩soul, but thou flatterest thy self, and thinkest thou shalt do well enough; but at length, before thou art aware, thy soul may be lost, and that unexpectedly; then it must needs be dreadful, because it is so great and unexpected: As (for example) if a Merchant should hear that his stock at the Indies were there safe and well, and afterward upon an instant there doth come news unexpectedly that all is lost and gone, Oh how doth it damp him! and O consider how it will damp thee hereafter, though now thou dost flatter thy self, If thy soul should be lost eternally? I say, it will be a dreadful loss in regard of the unexpectedness of it.
It may bee thou hearest a Minister speak of the loss of the ⟨p. 261⟩soul, but thou flatterest thy self, and thinkest thou shalt do well enough; but at length, before thou art aware, thy soul may bee lost, and that unexpectedly; then it must needs bee dreadful, because it is so great and unexpected: As (for example) if a Merchant should hear that his stock at the Indies were there safe and well, and afterward upon an instant there doth come news unexpectedly that all is lost and gone, Oh how doth it damp him! and O consider how it will damp thee hereafter, though now thou dost flatter thy self, If thy soul should bee lost eternally? I say, it will bee a dreadful loss in regard of the unexpectedness of it.
A fifth aggravation is this, It will prove to be a dreadful loss, because the loss of every soul that shall be lost, will prove to be a wilful loss: This is a great perplexity to a man in this world, when as he doth see he is undone, and that merely through his own wilfulness; and this will be the aggravation of the souls loss, that one day it shall plainly appear unto them, that it was through their own wilfulness.
A fifth aggravation is this, It will prove to bee a dreadful loss, because the loss of every soul that shall bee lost, will prove to bee a wilful loss: This is a great perplexity to a man in this world, when as hee doth see hee is undone, and that meerly through his own wilfulness; and this will bee the aggravation of the souls loss, that one day it shall plainly appear unto them, that it was through their own wilfulness.