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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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for the things of the world they should be thy servants, and thou art their servant, and so a servant of servants; the curse of Ham is upon thee, when thou art a slave to thy estate, or ⟨p. 349⟩thy honours, or to thy brutish lusts, a servant of servants art thou.
for the things of the world they should bee thy servants, and thou art their servant, and so a servant of servants; the curse of Cham is upon thee, when thou art a slave to thy estate, or ⟨p. 349⟩thy honours, or to thy brutish lusts, a servant of servants art thou.
Fourthly, They are such things as God in his ordinary administration of providence hath denied to the choicest of his servants, specially in the times of the Gospel: Many of the choice of his servants in former times were in very low and mean conditions; but for the times of the Gospel, how did Christ himself, who was the Son of God, live? he had not a hole to hide his head in; The fowls of the air had nests, and the Foxes had holes, but the son of man, not whereon to lay his head. Jesus Christ, that was infinitely beloved of the Father; and all the Apostles, they were in a poor mean condition, every one of them died a violent death, but only John; we have records of their several sorts of death, some crucified, some stoned, and some other kinds of death, but all put to death, save John, and read but the latter end of the eleventh of the Hebrews, Those that the world was not worthy of, how they wandered up and down, In sheep-skins, and goat-skins, and dens, and caves of the earth. That was a little before Christs time, he speaks of those in the time of the Maccabees: Now certainly, if God hath so ordered things in his general administrations, towards such as are most dear in his eyes, as to deny them these things, that they shall have but little of them, there is no great matter in them, surely if there were any great matter in them, God would not deny them to his servants; when a wicked rich man shall look upon a poor man that walks humbly before God, and would not commit the least sin willingly for a world, methinks such a man should think thus, Oh Lord! what a difference is there between such a poor man and I, and yet my conscience tells me, that God hath more honour from him in one day, than he hath from me in all my life; surely there is no such great matter in the things of the world, that God hath denied them him: If there were any great matter in them, certainly such as walk most humbly with God, and most close with God, should have them if they were absolutely good. — And indeed, this is one great