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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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But Seventhly, If thou wouldest have thy soul saved, thou must take heed of resting upon false hopes of thy salvation, you must raze down even to the very ground all your false hopes of salvation; there is nothing in the world hinders the salvation of souls more than false hopes; when men dare build their eternal salvation upon every sleight and vain hope that they hold, The hope of the Hypocrite, the Scripture saith, is like the Spiders-web, spun out of thine own conceits, but every little touch is enough to strike it down again: Oh the poor things that people thus venture their souls upon! I showed you in the opening of what did cause the loss of souls, that one thing was by venturing, and their vain hopes was one; now these must be razed down; you vvill say, what are those vain hopes that must first be razed down? and what do you mean by razing of them down?
But Seventhly, If thou vvouldest have thy soul saved, thou must take heed of resting upon false hopes of thy salvation, you must rase down even to the very ground all your false hopes of salvation; there is nothing in the vvorld hinders the salvation of souls more than false hopes; vvhen men dare build their eternal salvation upon every sleight and vain hope that they hold, The hope of the Hypocrite, the Scriptuie saith, is like the Spiders-webb, spun out of thine ovvn conceits, but every little touch is enough to strike it dovvn again: Oh the poor things that people thus venture their souls upon! I shevved you in the opening of vvhat did cause the loss of souls, that one thing vvas by venturing, and their vain hopes vvas one; novv these must bee ras'd dovvn; you vvill say, vvhat are those vain hopes that must first bee ras'd dovvn? and vvhat do you mean by rasing of them dovvn?
That I may speak plainly in this thing, that concerns the poorest and meanest, that is of the meanest capacity in the ⟨p. 221⟩world, as well as the most able or learned (for the poorest hath a soul to save, as well as the richest, and the weakest, as well as the learnedst) if such a one should say, What are those things that are to be razed down? to that I answ••.