A85953:678
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Treatise 3 › Sermon 8: The Eighth SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sixthly, Further, If thou wouldest have thy soul saved, attend upon those means that •od hath appointed to save souls, wait at wisdoms posts. Now this one direction being clearly shown out of Scripture, will be enough to confute all that talk against doing: If God hath appointed means to save, then surely he hath appointed that we must attend upon those means. Now in Rom. 1.16. The preaching of the Gospel there is called, The power of God to salvation. Now if you would be saved, you must bring your souls under that which is the power of God to salvation. Because the Lord in the Ministry of the Gospel doth use to put forth his Almighty Power for the saving of souls, therefore it is that the Gospel is called the power of God to salvation; you cannot be saved without the Almighty Power of God, and where is that put forth but in the preaching of the Gospel? To whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed? That is, the Arm of God in the preaching of the Gospel; so you know what the Apostle saith, in Rom. 10. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
Sixthly, Further, If thou wouldest have thy soul saved, attend upon those means that •od hath appointed to save souls, wait at wisdomes posts. Now this one direction being clearly shewn out of Scripture, will be enough to confute all that talk against doing: If God hath appointed means to save, then surely hee hath appointed that wee must attend upon those means. Now in Rom. 1.16. The preaching of the Gospel there is called, The power of God to salvation. Now if you would bee saved, you must bring your souls under that which is the power of God to salvation. Because the Lord in the Ministry of the Gospel doth use to put forth his Almighty Power for the saving of souls, therefore it is that the Gospel is called the power of God to salvation; you cannot be saved without the Almighty Power of God, and where is that put forth but in the preaching of the Gospel? To whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed? That is, the Arm of God in the preaching of the Gospel; so you know what the Apostle saith, in Rom. 10. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.