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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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he had that title given to him by those that were under him, and Antiochus Epiphanes, which signifies illustrious; Illustrious Epiphanes, the Mighty God, and yet the Holy Ghost gives him this title, a vile person; what good do a few herbs that are strewn upon a Carrion do? do they make the Carrion to be less corrupt and putrefied than it was? truly all the bravery that wicked men have, it is at the best but a few herbs and flowers strewn upon a filthy carrion, which makes them not to be the better: The things of this world therefore in Scripture are called the things of another mans, in Luk. 16.12. And if you have not been faithful in that which is another mans, who shall give you that which is your own? You may know the meaning of it by the verse before: If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous Mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? The riches of this world are called unrighteous Mammon; now these are opposite to the true riches, as if these were not True riches, and then in vers. 12. If you have not been faithful in that which is another mans, that is, in these riches of the world, who shall give you that which is your own? so that nothing is a mans own, to make him better, but grace; the good things of the soul, they are a mans own, but the other things they are the worlds things, they are not a mans own; therefore what doth it profit a man that he hath gained the world? for he is never a whit the better man.
hee had that title given to him by those that were under him, and Antiochus Epiphanes, which signifies illustrious; Illustrious Epiphanes, the Mighty God, and yet the Holy Ghost gives him this title, a vile person; what good do a few herbs that are strewn upon a Carrion do? do they make the Carrion to bee less corrupt and putrified than it was? truly all the bravery that wicked men have, it is at the best but a few herbs and flowers strewn upon a filthy carrion, which makes them not to bee the better: The things of this world therefore in Scripture are called the things of another mans, in Luk. 16.12. And if you have not been faithful in that which is another mans, who shall give you that which is your own? You may know the meaning of it by the verse before: If therefore yee have not been faithful in the unrighteous Mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? The riches of this world are called unrighteous Mammon; now these are opposite to the true riches, as if these were not True riches, and then in vers. 12. If you have not been faithful in that which is another mans, that is, in these riches of the world, who shall give you that which is your own? so that nothing is a mans own, to make him better, but grace; the good things of the soul, they are a mans own, but the other things they are the worlds things, they are not a mans own; therefore what doth it profit a man that hee hath gained the world? for hee is never a whit the better man.