A85953:584
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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The several ways by which men come to lose their Souls.
The several waies by which men come to lose their Souls.
As first, Some there are that lose their souls by wandering up and down in darkness all the days of their lives, by ⟨p. 273⟩wandering in the ways of sin, in the dark, and so are a continual prey unto the Devil: how many, yea and in many places, the generality of people, they go on continually in blindness and darkness, in the vanity of their conversations, knowing nothing of God, nor of their own souls; and the first time that the eyes of their souls are opened and enlightened, it is when they are irrecoverably undone; yea the first thing that many souls do ever understand concerning themselves, it is this, I am lost and undone for ever; it is so with many, certainly they know nothing about their own souls, nor about God, till they come to know this, I am cast away from God, and have lost my soul for ever.
As first, Some there are that lose their souls by wandring up and down in darkness all the daies of their lives, by ⟨p. 273⟩wandring in the waies of sin, in the dark, and so are a continual prey unto the Devil: how many, yea and in many places, the generality of people, they go on continually in blindness and darkness, in the vanity of their conversations, knowing nothing of God, nor of their own souls; and the first time that the eyes of their souls are opened and enlightned, it is when they are irrecoverably undone; yea the first thing that many souls do ever understand concerning themselves, it is this, I am lost and undone for ever; it is so with many, certainly they know nothing about their own souls, nor about God, till they come to know this, I am cast away from God, and have lost my soul for ever.