A85953:601
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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But you will say, that they are learned men, and have a great deal of show of truth, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness: But how art thou deceived by them? because thou receivest not the love of the truth, that thou mightest be saved: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions to believe a lye, that they might be damned; to that end God sends strong delusions, that men might believe those errors, and drink in that cup of fornications, that they might be damned for ever.
But you will say, that they are learned men, and have a great deal of shew of truth, with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness: But how art thou deceived by them? because thou receivest not the love of the truth, that thou mightest bee saved: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions to beleeve a lye, that they might bee damned; to that end God sends strong delusions, that men might beleeve those errours, and drink in that cup of fornications, that they might bee damned for ever.
If it were but only that one error drunk down in the grossness of it, that is, that the righteousness that I must tender up to God for satisfaction to divine Justice, and for my eternal salvation, must be mine own righteousness, mine own works: Here is enough to poison a soul to eternal perdition; and many other ways there may be that may endanger the soul extremely, and very ill consequences may be gathered from good principles: As for that principle of our Justification by free Grace in Christ; That it is only by Christ that we are justified, that principle is exceeding good, but from thence such dangerous venomous consequences may be drawn, as may extremely endanger; and I make no question do invenome and poison many thousand souls, upon which they draw consequences for looseness, and against humiliation for sin, and against obedience to the Law, as by Moses. All the principles and errors that are against the strict ways of God, that tend to any looseness, certainly they are invenoming principles: Oh take heed of any doctrine, of any conceits, of any opinions that do any way tend to looseness! they will certainly poison and invenome your souls, so that your very errors may be enough to damn you eternally. Many lose their souls by poisoning.