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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 10: The Tenth SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
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The Tenth SERMON ON The Excellency of the Soul.
Matthew 16.26. For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Matthew 16.26. For what is a man profited if hee shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Now then having done with that point, we are to come to the last thing; That as the loss is great, as in all the respects I opened, so it is such, that suppose a man to have gained the whole world in a way of the loss of his soul, yet that gain will never recompense it; Job 27.8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God takes away his soul? There are some men that seek the world, and yet lose both the world and their souls, they neither gain the world, nor their own souls; and some there are that do gain the world and their souls both: But there is no necessary connection between either gaining the world, or losing ones soul, or losing the world, and gaining the soul, but one may be severed from the other.
NOw then having done with that point, wee are to come to the last thing; That as the loss is great, as in all the respects I opened, so it is such, that suppose a man to have gained the whole world in a way of the loss of his soul, yet that gain will never recompence it; Job 27.8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though hee hath gained, when God takes away his soul? There are some men that seek the world, and yet lose both the world and their souls, they neither gain the world, nor their own souls; and some there are that do gain the world and their souls both: But there is no necessary connexion between either gaining the world, or losing ones soul, or losing the world, and gaining the soul, but one may bee severed from the other.