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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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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.
A third thing that may make even a carnal heart to see all the things of this world to be as nothing, It is strength of Reason; though there should not be terror of conscience, nor any afflictions, yet strength of reason may discover the gain of this world to be as nothing, in comparing of it unto the soul; and this strength of reason God is pleased sometimes to sanctify by his Spirit, when it is helped by the Word, by the sanctified reason that there is in the Word; I say, when it is helped by that, then God blesses it so as to work off the heart from the world, to the things that concern the everlasting good of the soul; And it is that that I shall speak to at this time, to convince you what a poor thing the gain of the world is, even by strength of reason, and yet such reason as is founded upon the Scripture. —I have already shown you the things that may make a spiritual heart see a vanity in all things in the world, as the excellency of God, and of Christ, and the consequences of eternity; Now the other two, terror of conscience, and afflictions, they are Gods work, and God, when he pleaseth to show the vanity of the World, oth ordinarily bring them upon the creature; but now for the third way of God to discover to the creature by the sanctified saving work of his Spirit, the vanity of all things; I shall endeavour to show it you by strength of Argument and Reason out of the Word.