A85953:569
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 tenth aggravation of the misery of a lost soul, is this, When they shall see others taken up into the Kingdom of Heaven, who were as unlikely to be saved as themselves, and they themselves shut out, and eternally lost: It may be thou that art a carnal Master mayst see thy poor servant taken up to God, and thou thy self shut out; or it may be the carnal Father or Mother may see their child saved, and yet they themselves lost; Oh this will be a sad aggravation of their loss. And thus you have heard the dreadful loss of the soul, together with the aggravations thereof in these ten particulars. Now for the Use.
The tenth aggravation of the misery of a lost soul, is this, When they shall see others taken up into the Kingdome of Heaven, who were as unlikely to bee saved as themselves, and they themselves shut out, and eternally lost: It may bee thou that art a carnal Master mayst see thy poor servant taken up to God, and thou thy self shut out; or it may bee the carnal Father or Mother may see their childe saved, and yet they themselves lost; Oh this will bee a sad aggravation of their loss. And thus you have heard the dreadful loss of the soul, together with the aggravations thereof in these ten particulars. Now for the Use.
Is it so, that the loss of the soul eternally is so dreadful a loss, as you have heard it is? Oh then let every one here bless God for their souls, that their souls are not thus lost. It might have been so long ere this time; when such a kinsman of thine dyed, or thy fellow-servant, or when such a neighbour or acquaintance of thine dyed, if thou hadst but dyed when they dyed, thy soul, it may be, had been eternally lost.
Is it so, that the loss of the soul eternally is so dreadful a loss, as you have heard it is? Oh then let every one here bless God for their souls, that their souls are not thus lost. It might have been so long ere this time; when such a kinsman of thine dyed, or thy fellow-servant, or when such a neighbour or acquaintance of thine dyed, if thou hadst but dyed when they dyed, thy soul, it may bee, had been eternally lost.