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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 1 › Sermon 3: The Third SERMON ON The Nature of God.
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But a second Use is this that we are now to proceed in, Oh how vile is sin then that is committed against such a God as this is? there is nothing in the world can show a soul the evil of sin, but the sight of God. If we should tell you never so much of the terrors of the Law, and of hell fire, though you might see the desert of sin somewhat, yet until you come to see with what a God you have to deal, you can never know what the evil of sin means. Against thee, thee only have I sinned, 1saith David, that was the thing that struck Davids spirit, David knew that it was against God that he sinned; when God shall come to the conscience of a sinner, and present himself before his conscience, and say, Oh wretched sinner, it is I that you have sinned against, as Christ did in Act. 9. unto Saul, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 2So ⟨p. 32⟩when God shall say, Sinner, sinner, why dost thou rebel against me? If God would but give us one sight of himself, that we might behold him as he is upon his Throne, in this excellency of his Name above all things, it were impossible but the heart of a sinner should even break at such a sight. Certainly one day every sinner shall have a sight of God: Happy it is now for us to have such a sight of God here in this world, that may cause us to see the evil of our sins, for otherwise the sight of God hereafter, will certainly sink our souls into the bottomless gulf of horror and despair. When Daniel was about to confess his sin, in Dan. 9. Mark how he begins, because he would get his heart to be affected with his sin, and the sins of the people that there he confessed: Mark how he begins his prayer,3 And I prayed (saith he in the 4. verse) unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God; thus he begins, I made confession (saith he) I prayed and made confession of sin, and said, Oh Lord, the great and dreadful God: first he looks upon God how great and dreadful he was, and this it was that caused him to confess his sin with humiliation: you that say your prayers, and will confess that you are sinners, did you but at the beginning of your prayers, when you go to confess your sin, cast up one eye to heaven, and behold this God upon his Throne, and see him to be the great and dreadful God, it would cause you to confess sin after another manner than ever yet you have done: