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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 1 › Sermon 2: The Second SERMON ON The Nature of God.
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The Second SERMON ON The Nature of God.
PSAL. 148.13. For his Name alone is excellent.
11 THE next thing is this, All excellencies are in God purely, and immixtly, that is, God hath all excellencies in him, and nothing else but excellency; the creature it may have some excellency, but it hath a mixture of imperfections; it may have some power, but there is a mixture of weakness; it may have some goodness, but there is a mixture of some kind of evil in creatures as they are in themselves; the very Angels themselves, though they are upheld by God, yet they have that in them that might make them sin against God, if God did but leave them to themselves: So there is a mixture of weakness in all creatures, but God alone is excellent, for he hath nothing else in him but that which is excellent, 1 Joh. 1.5. The Lo•d is light, and in him there is no darkness; this cannot be said of any creature, that the creature hath excellency ⟨p. 20⟩in him, and there is no darkness at all in him; there is darkness in every creature, but the Lord is light, and in him there is no darkness; that that is said concerning light here, may be said concerning any thing else, the Lord hath such and such Excellencies, and in him there is no defect, all is in him purely.
11 THE next thing is this, All excellencies are in God purely, and immixtly, that is, God hath all excellencies in him, and nothing else but excellency; the creature it may have some excellency, but it hath a mixture of imperfections; it may have some power, but there is a mixture of weakness; it may have some goodness, but there is a mixture of some kinde of evil in creatures as they are in themselves; the very Angels themselves, though they are upheld by God, yet they have that in them that might make them sin against God, if God did but leave them to themselves: So there is a mixture of weakness in all creatures, but God alone is excellent, for hee hath nothing else in him but that which is excellent,