A85953:597
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.
Sixthly, And then a sixth way of mens losing their souls, it is by being poisoned, their souls are poisoned, and so they come to be lost: now the poison of the soul it is either wicked company, or wicked errors; either of those two.
Sixthly, And then a sixth way of mens losing their souls, it is by being poisoned, their souls are poisoned, and so they come to bee lost: now the poison of the soul it is either wicked company, or wicked errours; either of those two.
By keeping of wicked company, thou keepest in an infectious Air, thou goest from home sometimes and meetest with such wicked company, thou gettest thy bane, thy poison there, and poison works divers ways; sometimes it will cause one to swell mightily; how many, when they come from their wicked company, come home with such ⟨p. 278⟩swelling hearts, in such an outrageous way, swearing, and fighting, and blaspheming, and scorning, and contemning at all ways of godliness; now these have been abroad, and have gotten poison, and so they shall, and are ready to burst with it.
By keeping of wicked company, thou keepest in an infectious Air, thou goest from home sometimes and meetest with such wicked company, thou gettest thy bain, thy poison there, and poison works divers waies; sometimes it will cause one to swell mightily; how many, when they come from their wicked company, come home with such ⟨p. 278⟩swelling hearts, in such an outragious way, swearing, and fighting, and blaspheming, and scorning, and contemning at all waies of godliness; now these have been abroad, and have gotten poison, and so they shall, and are ready to burst with it.