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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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14 Further, As all things are from him, so they depend upon him; all excellencies that are in the creature, as they come from God, so they have their absolute dependency upon God, so as God need do nothing to destroy a creature: if he doth but withdraw himself from it, it falls to nothing presently; take the most glorious Angels, and the highest Heavens, Sun, Moon, Stars, Sea, and Earth, if God should but withdraw his hand from these creatures, they would presently fall down to nothing; they do depend upon God, as the light upon the Sun, there is no more light if the beams of the Sun be withdrawn; so if God withdraw his influence from the creature, it can do nothing, ⟨p. 21⟩and its nothing presently; so that the influence that there is from God to the creature, it is to maintain the creature in his being; every moment the Lord must put forth as infinite a power to maintain thee and me, and every creature, as he did at the first for the making of the world.1 And this is Gods excellency to uphold all things, they do so depend upon him. If a work-man make a house, he goes away, the house can stand without him; but when God built the world, the world could not stand one moment without him. And not only God must have an influence into the creature to preserve the being, but likewise to enable the creature to act; the creature cannot act one moment without God, no creature can stir in the least degree,2 except the Lord concur with it; Therefore the Name of God alone is excellent; By him, saith the Scripture, we live, we move, we have our being; not only we are upheld in our being and lives, but we move, we cannot stir one moment, but God must concur with his creature for the motion and action of it.
14 Further, As all things are from him, so they depend upon him; all excellencies that are in the creature, as they come from God, so they have their absolute dependency upon God, so as God need do nothing to destroy a creature: if hee doth but withdraw himself from it, it falls to nothing presently; take the most glorious Angels, and the highest Heavens, Sun, Moon, Stars, Sea, and Earth, if God should but withdraw his hand from these creatures, they would presently fall down to nothing; they do depend upon God, as the light upon the Sun, there is no more light if the beams of the Sun bee withdrawn; so if God withdraw his influence from the creature, it can do nothing,