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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 7: The Seventh SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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And in the answer to this we must premise further.
And in the answer to this wee must premise further.
First, There is nothing that any man can do, that saves him, there must be somewhat higher that what he can do; and yet God requires that he should do what he can do; Indeed what any man can do of himself, yea or by assistance from common grace, yea we will say further, by assistance from any grace whatsoever, though it may help forward his salvation, by an ordinance of God, yet it cannot be the thing that saves him, the thing that saves him is higher than what is done by the creature, it is what is done by Christ, or what is suffered by Christ, it is that that saves the soul, and not, I say, what is done or suffered by us.
First, There is nothing that any man can do, that saves him, there must bee somewhat higher that what hee can do; and yet God requires that hee should do what hee can do; Indeed what any man can do of himself, yea or by assistance from common grace, yea wee will say further, by assistance from any grace whatsoever, though it may help forward his salvation, by an ordinance of God, yet it cannot be the thing that saves him, the thing that saves him is higher than what is done by the creature, it is what is done by Christ, or what is suffered by Christ, it is that that saves the soul, and not, I say, what is done or suffered by us.
But yet now we must not make such a vain, and foolish, and dangerous inference, that therefore nothing is to be done, because the things that we do are not the things that ⟨p. 205⟩save us; there is a great deal of evil comes from men and women's presuming to draw consequences; they think that if this be true, the other will follow, and so through the weakness of their understandings,