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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 6: The Sixth SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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First, A man forfeits his soul, as men do their Copyholds, by not tendering that homage to their Lord that is due, by which they hold their Lands, and so their Lands come to be forfeit; so dost thou; God hath given thee thy precious soul, more worth than all the world, and thou holdest it of God, but so as thou must tender up to this Lord that homage that is due to him, that is, thou must worship God: When we come to worship God, this is that we do, we come to tender up that homage that we acknowledge to be due to God for these souls ⟨p. 286⟩of ours that he hath given unto us, that is our worship; that is the nature of worship, The tendering up something by way of homage, to acknowledge that due respect we owe unto God, as that Lord that hath the absolute dispose of us; now by neglect of worshipping of God, of tendering up his homage, thou forfeitest thy soul, and endangerest thy self to perish eternally; and oh how few people regard any such worship of God! and though they do the thing that God requires, as praying, and coming to hear the Word, yet do they not do it as in a way of tendering up homage to that God, upon whom they do only depend; but now this is that which God requires of us, or otherwise our souls are forfeited.
First, A man forfeits his soul, as men do their Coppyholds, by not tendering that homage to their Lord that is due, by which they hold their Lands, and so their Lands come to bee forfeit; so dost thou; God hath given thee thy precious soul, more worth than all the world, and thou holdest it of God, but so as thou must tender up to this Lord that homage that is due to him, that is, thou must worship God: When wee come to worship God, this is that wee do, wee come to tender up that homage that wee acknowledge to bee due to God for these souls ⟨p. 286⟩of ours that hee hath given unto us, that is our worship; that is the nature of worship, The tendering up something by way of homage, to acknowledge that due respect wee owe unto God, as that Lord that hath the absolute dispose of us; now by neglect of worshipping of God, of tendering up his homage, thou forfeitest thy soul, and indangerest thy self to perish eternally; and oh how few people regard any such worship of God! and though they do the thing that God requires, as praying, and coming to hear the Word, yet do they not do it as in a way of tendering up homage to that God, upon whom they do onely depend; but now this is that which God requires of us, or otherwise our souls are forfeited.