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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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It is a good thing therefore in our prayers, when we are about to confess sin, first to set before our souls the greatness and the dreadfulness of that God that we have sinned against. When this Prophet Daniel would humble that proud Belshazzar, in Dan. 5.23. Mark what he saith, And the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are thy ways, hast thou not glorified: This speech set home upon a mans conscience, were enough to break the proudest and stoutest heart in the world. If so be that the eyes of the proudest stoutest sinner were opened to ⟨p. 33⟩see God in his glory, and to hear the Lord speak thus to him, that God in whose hand is the breath of thy nostrils, and all thy ways, that is the God that thou hast not glorified, thou doest not think with whom it is that thou hast to deal; but that is the God that you have heard preached of thus, Whose Name alone is excellent, such an infinite and glorious Deity is that Deity that thou hast neglected and despised, and preferred thy lusts before: Oh if God would but give commission unto your consciences to speak this with power to you, that God that is thus glorious and excellent you have sinned against, oh it would be of wonderful force to break the hardest heart of men. And in Psal. 104.1, 2.1 Do but see there how David had his heart rising against sin and sinners upon the consideration of the excellency of God, there he speaks of the same argument that we have here in the Text, Bless the Lord, Oh my soul: my God, thou art very great, thou art clothed with honour and majesty (and so he goes on) who coverest thy self with light as with a garment. He proceeds in the Psalm describing the greatness and excellency of God: But then when he had done describing Gods excellency, and found his heart warmed and enlarged, and raised with the meditation of the excellency of God, Mark how he breaks forth in the last words of the Psalm, Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more; 2bless thou the Lord, Oh my soul: As if holy David should have said thus, Oh Lord, I see thee to be very great, and thou art clothed with honour and Majesty, and thy Name is excellent above all things: What? And are there any wretched creatures that will dare to presume to rebel against thee who art so great, that will dare yet to set their will against thy will, and to prefer their lusts before thee?