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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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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.
Ye will not come to me, saith Christ,1 that you might have life; and ye will not endure to hear of the danger ye are in, of being lost eternally: Oh how wilful must the loss of those souls be, that will not give ear to hear of the danger their souls are in, of being thus lost? And O how wilfully do you run on in wicked courses, which God hath given command unto the contrary in his Word, and how do you wilfully cast off the means that God hath appointed for your salvation? But know, ye perish wilfully, if ye wilfully reject or neglect to improve the means that God hath given for the saving of your souls: I say, that man or woman that shall wilfully cast off those truths of God that should save them, that man or woman doth wilfully perish:
Yee will not come to mee, saith Christ,1 that you might have life; and yee will not indure to hear of the danger yee are in, of being lost eternally: Oh how wilful must the loss of those souls bee, that will not give ear to hear of the danger their souls are in, of being thus lost? And O how wilfully do you run on in wicked courses, which God hath given command unto the contrary in his Word, and how do you wilfully cast off the means that God hath appointed for your salvation? But know, yee perish wilfully, if yee wilfully reject or neglect to improve the means that God hath given for the saving of your souls: I say, that man or woman that shall wilfully cast off those truths of God that should save them, that man or woman doth wilfully perish: