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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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You that have been forward heretofore, and have lost the work of Gods Spirit, you had need look about you, for it is a dangerous thing to draw back; My soul, saith God,1 shall have no pleasure in those that shall draw back. And if the soul of God will have no pleasure in thee, how shall thy soul be saved?
You that have been forward heretofore, and have lost the work of Gods Spirit, you had need look about you, for it is a dangerous thing to draw back; My soul, saith God,1 shall have no pleasure in those that shall draw back. And if the soul of God will have no pleasure in thee, how shall thy soul bee saved?
Twelfthly, Whosoever would have their souls saved, let them take this course, account the preciousness of the time of your lives to consist in this, that it is a day of salvation; account it therefore a mercy of God that your lives are continued upon this reason, not because you may get great estates, and live and have your pleasures and delights, but because God hath appointed the time of mans life here in this world, to be the time to provide for his eternity; few men and women in the world know how to judge aright of the preciousness of their time, the time of their lives; and that man or woman that comes to know aright how to judge of the preciousness of this time of life, and of what doth depend upon it, such a one is in a good forwardness to salvation.
Twelfthly, Whosoever would have their souls saved, let them take this course, account the preciousness of the time of your lives to consist in this, that it is a day of salvation; account it therefore a mercy of God that your lives are continued upon this reason, not because you may get great estates, and live and have your pleasures and delights, but because God hath appointed the time of mans life here in this world, to bee the time to provide for his eternity; few men and women in the world know how to judge aright of the preciousness of their time, the time of their lives; and that man or woman that comes to know aright how to judge of the preciousness of this time of life, and of what doth depend upon it, such a one is in a good forwardness to salvation.