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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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It is Jesus Christ that brings in all the good, and happiness, and glory of God to the children of men, and it is he that my heart ⟨p. 330⟩opens to receive in, to embrace, to be satisfied with all, as all the good and happiness I expect; and it is Christ that my heart opens too to save me from my sin, as well as from punishment, to unite me to God, to bring me to union with him, that I may live for ever to the praise of the great God; and it is this Christ that I take into my heart to be King and Governor, and now to rule: Sin, Satan, Temptations, Lusts, shall not reign as they have done, but Christ shall set up his own Government in my soul. — Now then, upon this must needs follow wonderful and glorious effects upon the soul, the soul that doth believe such high things as these are, and doth open it self to receive Christ upon such terms, certainly, I say, there must needs be wonderful effects wrought in that soul; such things must needs work the soul up to God, to live to him in another manner than ever, and that is the reason of the Scripture expression,1 Whosoever is in Christ, is a New Creature, all old things are past away, and all things are become new. For why? the Lord hath revealed new glorious things to such a soul, and the Lord therefore now acts and carries on the soul to other manner of objects than ever before it was wont to be busied about. — And such a kind of work of Faith is this, that is the foundation of the great work of salvation next to Jesus Christ himself, as the old must be razed down, so a new must be raised up.
It is Jesus Christ that brings in all the good, and happiness, and glory of God to the children of men, and it is hee that my heart ⟨p. 330⟩opens to receive in, to imbrace, to bee satisfied with all, as all the good and happiness I expect; and it is Christ that my heart opens too to save mee from my sin, as well as from punishment, to unite mee to God, to bring mee to union with him, that I may live for ever to the praise of the great God; and it is this Christ that I take into my heart to bee King and Governour, and now to rule: Sin, Satan, Temptations, Lusts, shall not reign as they have done, but Christ shall set up his own Government in my soul. — Now then, upon this must needs follow wonderful and glorious effects upon the soul, the soul that doth beleeve such high things as these are, and doth open it self to receive Christ upon such tearms, certainly, I say, there must needs bee wonderful effects wrought in that soul; such things must needs work the soul up to God, to live to him in another manner than ever, and that is the reason of the Scripture expression,