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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 9: The Ninth SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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The next is, by laying the new foundation of this great work of thy salvation, and be sure thou lay that sure.
The next is, by laying the new foundation of this great work of thy salvation, and bee sure thou lay that sure.
You will say, lay it sure, what is it?
Christ is the foundation, No other foundation can be laid but Christ himself; lay it there: — And then that that is next to Christ the foundation, it is the true work of Faith, and the true work of Repentance; the true work of Faith that is next, that is the foundation of what is wrought in our hearts; Christ is the foundation first, but of any work ⟨p. 329⟩in our hearts, the work of Faith, Believe, and thou shalt be saved: Now then, this work of Faith, thou must rightly know what it is, and the way of thy believing; and how thou dost receive Jesus Christ in thy believing; and the power of thy Faith how that is wrought; and what the work of it is upon thy heart; now thou having laid Christ for thy foundation, and understood the mystery of the Gospel, then when thou comest to believe, in this great mystery of the Gospel, thou must consider what is it that I am now to believe; why I am now to believe this, that the thoughts of God from all eternity were for the good of the children of men; and therefore he hath sent the second Person in Trinity into the world to take mans nature upon him, to die an accursed death for the sin of man: And for me in particular, the thoughts of God were thus upon me from all eternity, to send his son into the world to take my nature upon him, and to be made a curse for my sin, to pay a price for my soul, and through him (when I believe) I do believe all my sin to be pardoned, the infinite, holy, dreadful God to be at peace with me, my soul to be reconciled; this wretched sinful soul of mine to be received into mercy, into the love of God, as the love of a Father, to be made an Heir of God and Eternal life, when thou dost believe, this is the Object of thy Faith; now this is a mighty work, a mighty thing to believe such things as these are: Consider therefore what thou doest, when thou sayest thou dost believe in Jesus Christ, put that to th soul, canst thou, O my soul, close with these things? canst thou venture thy soul upon such things as these are? and when thou comest to believe, what dost thou? it is not that thou thinkest that these things are true, but thou dost in thy believing receive Jesus Christ according to the condition of the Gospel, that is, thy heart doth open to receive into it the King of glory; Oh it is Christ that is the foundation of the New Wold that God is to raise up;