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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 first is, If God do but please to wound his conscience, and terrify him, he will see all things to be poor things indeed.
The first is, If God do but please to wound his conscience, and terrifie him, hee will see all things to bee poor things indeed.
Or secondly, When God lays his hand upon him in afflicting of him, upon his sick-bed, or upon his death-bed. It is reported of Musculus, that when he lay upon his death-bed, and his friends coming about him, and seeing what a poor condition he was in, that had been an eminent worthy Instrument of God, and an excellent Preacher in his time, and they mourning for the sad condition they saw him to be in, O quid sumus? say they; as he lay in his bed he over-heard them, Fumus, said he; that is, O what ⟨p. 343⟩are we? smoke: Many a carnal man in the time of his sickness, and apprehension of death, will say, that all this world it is as nothing.
Or secondly, When God laies his hand upon him in afflicting of him, upon his sick-bed, or upon his death-bed. It is reported of Musculus, that when hee lay upon his death-bed, and his friends coming about him, and seeing what a poor condition hee was in, that had been an eminent worthy Instrument of God, and an excellent Preacher in his time, and they mourning for the sad condition they saw him to bee in, O quid sumus? say they; as hee lay in his bed hee over-heard them, Fumus, said hee; that is, O what ⟨p. 343⟩are wee? smoak: Many a carnal man in the time of his sickness, and apprehension of death, will say, that all this world it is as nothing.