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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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when any wretched sinner shall hear the Gospel preached to him, and yet shall prize the living in any base wicked way of sin, I say, such a one doth trample the blood of the everlasting Covenant under his feet, and the language of his heart and actions is nothing but this, whatsoever is spoken concerning the blood of the everlasting Covenant revealed in the Gospel, I do prize the satisfying the lusts of mine own heart, more than all the good that is in the Covenant; now do you think can such a soul as this be saved? now you sin against the blood of the Covenant, when you come hand over head to the Sacrament, and thereby you come to be guilty of the body and blood of Jesus Christ; People are mighty earnest about coming to Sacraments, now do but read 1 Cor. 11. It is a Scripture which I know you that are acquainted with Scripture, are not unacquainted with, vers. 27. Whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord; And what then, vers. 29. He eateth and drinketh his own damnation. When you would have the Sacrament, as the seal of the blood of Christ, and yet come in your sin and filthiness, and do not discern the Lords body, you come to be guilty of the blood of Christ, and so to be guilty of your own damnation; and so many think to seal their souls, by eating and drinking, the damnation of their souls; for there is nothing set out in Scripture that furthers more the damnation of a soul, than to sin against the blood of the Covenant: I know some make that Scripture their damnation to themselves, that is, that they are only to be reproved and condemned for ⟨p. 335⟩doing so, but we are to enlarge Scripture to the uttermost that may be; and seeing the Scripture hath made the sin against the blood of Christ in other places so dreadful, we may very well understand that place in the most dreadful sense that may be: Now if in case you come unworthily, you hear what the Scripture speaks, it is guiltiness of the blood of Christ, and eating and drinking your own souls damnation: — And then take heed of sinning against the mercy of God; let not mercy harden you, but let it soften your hearts;
when any wretched sinner shall hear the Gospel preached to him, and yet shall prize the living in any base wicked way of sin, I say, such a one doth trample the blood of the everlasting Covenant under his feet, and the language of his heart and actions is nothing but this, whatsoever is spoken concerning the blood of the everlasting Covenant revealed in the Gospel, I do prize the satisfying the lusts of mine own heart, more than all the good that is in the Covenant; now do you think can such a soul as this bee saved? now you sin against the blood of the Covenant, when you come hand over head to the Sacrament, and thereby you come to bee guilty of the body and blood of Jesus Christ; People are mighty earnest about coming to Sacraments, now do but read