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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 8: The Eighth SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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Fourthly, And then the Gospel it reveals further as necessary to salvation, a necessity of Regeneration, of being born again, of having the Image of God renewed in the soul, by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, of being a new Creature, the want of which, if the soul should now depart, it must ⟨p. 314⟩certainly perish under, but now if it come to be saved, it must have this revealed to it; for in the Gospel there is held forth the great work of God in begetting that soul anew to himself, that he doth intend to save, in putting a new life into it, in sending the Spirit of Jesus Christ into it, whereby it lives, and acts, and works, being now carried on, not by its own spirit, but by the Spirit of the Son of God; this is necessary to salvation, to do acts of Regeneration: so Christ tells Nicodemus, he must be born again, and this only the Gospel reveals; and thus our souls should labour to acquaint themselves with the great things of the Gospel; and as the wise man saith concerning instruction, in Prov. 4.13. Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go, keep her, for she is thy life. So I say of these instructions that are revealed in the Gospel, keep them, for they are your lives; do not think that God, though he is infinitely merciful, yet that he will save souls any other way, for God hath set this way, and it is an infinite mercy that we are to admire at, and adore, and praise his Name for, that there may be salvation any way; and if there may be salvation any way, oh you poor wretched children of men! know, that you should be restless, till you come to understand further that one way; Oh that we could make it to be the great business of our lives, to search into the Gospel, and find out these things, for it is through this that we come to have eternal life.
Fourthly, And then the Gospel it reveals further as necessary to salvation, a necessity of Regeneration, of being born again, of having the Image of God renewed in the soul, by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, of being a new Creature, the want of which, if the soul should now depart, it must ⟨p. 314⟩certainly perish under, but now if it come to bee saved, it must have this revealed to it; for in the Gospel there is held forth the great work of God in begetting that soul anew to himself, that hee doth intend to save, in putting a new life into it, in sending the Spirt of Jesus Christ into it, whereby it lives, and acts, and works, being now carried on, not by its own spirit, but by the Spirit of the Son of God; this is necessary to salvation, to do acts of Regeneration: so Christ tells Nicodomus, hee must bee born again, and this onely the Gospel reveals; and thus our souls should labour to acquaint themselves with the great things of the Gospel; and as the wise man saith concerning instruction, in