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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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Secondly, For Riches, see the testimony of the Holy Ghost concerning them, in Prov. 23.5. Wilt thou set thi•e eyes upon that which is not? That which hath no being at all; no, it is only grace and godliness, that is that that hath a being, Prov. 8.21. That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, Junius turns it, to inherit that which is; you think that the things of grace are but imaginations, and only worldly things are real, no, the things of the world are but fancies, and the things of grace are real.
Secondly, For Riches, see the testimony of the Holy Ghost concerning them, in Prov. 23.5. Wilt thou set thi•e eyes upon that which is not? That which hath no being at all; no, it is onely grace and godliness, that is that that hath a beeing, Prov. 8.21. That I may cause those that love mee to inherit substance, Junius turns it, to inherit that which is; you think that the things of grace are but imaginations, and onely worldly things are real, no, the things of the world are but fancies, and the things of grace are real.
Thirdly, And then the third is for Honours, Act. 25.23. And on the morrow when Agrippa was come and Bernice with great Pomp; With much fancy, it was but all a fancy,1 and the truth is, the excellency that these things of the world have, it is an excellency that our fancy puts upon them; as a piece of gold that heretofore was but twenty shillings, it is raised up to two and twenty shillings; I but though men may raise it up in their fancies to be worth more, the gold