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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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Fourthly, And then a fourth sort there are that lose their souls by being gulled of them, by being deceived of them; Satan persuades them they are in a good condition, that all is well with them, and they need not fear, what need they to trouble themselves, these are but the melancholy thoughts of such and such kind of people; there is no such great matters required in sorrow for sin, and it is but a Lord have mercy upon us, and but, a being in Christ, and hoping in ⟨p. 276⟩Gods mercy, and the like; and thus by such kind of delusions as these are, many souls are gulled and deceived by the Devil, and so perish for ever. They are like unto Jonah, that was asleep, and awakened in the midst of a dreadful tempest: so certainly these souls, when they come to know themselves, and to be awakened, it will be in the dreadful tempest of Gods wrath: As Sampson; the Philistines are upon thee, when he lay in Delilahs bosom; so there will be that dreadful noise one day to these souls, the wrath of God, and the curse of the Law is upon thee, that must lye upon thee; Oh the dreadful sorrow there will be when the soul shall see, oh I am deluded and gulled! many of you are vexed extremely, when you are gulled of any little part of your estates, but to be deluded and gulled of your souls, so as they must be lost for ever, this will be extreme horror another day.
Fourthly, And then a fourth sort there are that lose their souls by being gulled of them, by being deceived of them; Satan perswades them they are in a good condition, that all is well with them, and they need not fear, what need they to trouble themselves, these are but the melancholly thoughts of such and such kind of people; there is no such great matters required in sorrow for sin, and it is but a Lord have mercy upon us, and but, a being in Christ, and hoping in ⟨p. 276⟩Gods mercy, and the like; and thus by such kind of delusions as these are, many souls are gulled and deceived by the Devil, and so perish for ever. They are like unto Jonas, that was asleep, and awakened in the midst of a dreadful tempest: so certainly these souls, when they come to know themselves, and to bee awakened, it will bee in the dreadfull tempest of Gods wrath: As Sampson; the Philistims are upon thee, when hee lay in Delilahs bosome; so there will bee that dreadful noise one day to these souls, the wrath of God, and the curse of the Law is upon thee, that must lye upon thee; Oh the dreadful sorrow there will bee when the soul shall see, oh I am deluded and gulled! many of you are vext extreamly, when you are gulled of any little part of your estates, but to bee deluded and gulled of your souls, so as they must bee lost for ever, this will bee extream horrour another day.