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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 5: The Fifth SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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Secondly, If the loss of the soul be so dreadful a loss, Oh let us bless God then for Jesus Christ, without whom all our souls had been eternally lost, never a soul in the world but must have perished unto all eternity, had not Jesus Christ come into the world to be the great Saviour of souls; All the Angels in Heaven, and men in the world could never ⟨p. 268⟩have saved one soul; now Christ saw this, and his bowels did even yearn towards so many thousands of precious souls, and rather than they should perish, he was content to come and make his own soul to be an offering for sin, Isa. 53.10. the soul of Christ was made an offering there, and what was that but for the saving of souls? we may therefore, concerning Christ, well say, as the Elders, in Rev. 5.9. They sang a new song, saying, Thou art worthy, &c. for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood. Oh thou art worthy! O blessed Saviour! He doth not say what, but only thus, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof, for thou wert slain, and hast redeemed us to God: There is infinite worthiness in Christ, and worthy he is of all the honour that we are able possibly to bring to him, had we ten thousand times more strength than we have to do it; For he was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by his blood. If there were a company of poor people upon the Sea, and in danger to be lost, their own ship through stress of weather fallen to pieces, and they upon a plank, and ready to be swallowed up of every wave, and there comes a ship by, and saves their lives, Oh how would they be affected with such a mercy as this! and bless God for his goodness, that such a ship should come by at such a time; we had all been lost if this ship had not come by just at this time: So when we read the Gospel, we read of Jesus Christ God-Man coming into the world, and standing between the wrath of the Infinite God, and sinful souls, let us then consider how infinitely we are bound to bless God for Jesus Christ; for we were ready even all of us to be swallowed up into the bottomless gulf of the wrath of the infinite God;
Secondly, If the loss of the soul bee so dreadful a loss, Oh let us bless God then for Jesus Christ, without whom all our souls had been eternally lost, never a soul in the world but must have perished unto all eternity, had not Jesus Christ come into the world to bee the great Saviour of souls; All the Angels in Heaven, and men in the world could never