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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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If a man had lived in a dark Dungeon under the ground all the days of his life, and never had the glimpse of any light whatsoever, never since he was born, if on a sudden a candle should be brought to him, he would admire at that glory; but now if this man should afterwards be brought into the world, and see the glory of the Sun, the glory of the candle would be nothing to him: So the men of the world, because they live as it were in darkness, they have some comforts in the creature, and they think them to be glorious, for they know no better: But that soul that hath had a sight of God, comes to see that all things in the world are but darkness to him. There is nothing can disengage the heart of a man from the creature, so, as a sight of God. You have a notable Scripture for that, how a sight of God doth dis-engage the heart of a man from the creature, in Act. 7.2. And he said, Men, Brethren, and ⟨p. 38⟩Fathers, hearken, The God of glory appeared unto our Father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Charran, and said unto him, Get thee out of thy Country, and from thy kindred, and come into the Land which I shall show thee: And so he shows how Abraham was content to forsake all his friends and Country; Why? the God of glory appeared to him: it is said upon this, when the Holy Ghost would show what it was that brought Abraham out of his Country, that took off his heart from all his friends and Country, to go into a strange Country, saith the Holy Ghost, The God of glory appeared to our Father Abraham: Let a mans heart be never so much glued to any contentments that are here in the world, let but the God of glory appear to that man, and all things are vanity, then the heart quickly comes off from any thing. And indeed though there may be many arguments that may make men and women to deny themselves very much the use of creature-comforts, yet the heart is never throughly taken off till the God of glory appear to the soul. A notable example of self-denial it that of Moses, Moses that might have had all the riches and glory of Egypt, might have been next to the King himself, an heir, for so some write, that Pharaoh had no son, and that Pharaohs daughter did adopt Moses, to the end that he might be an heir to the Crown, and yet Moses that had all riches, and the treasures of Egypt at command, yet he forsakes a•l;
If a man had lived in a dark Dungeon under the ground all the dayes of his life, and never had the glimpse of any light whatsoever, never since hee was born, if on a sudden a candle should bee brought to him, hee would admire at that glory; but now if this man should afterwards bee brought into the world, and see the glory of the Sun, the glory of the candle would bee nothing to him: So the men of the world, because they live as it were in darkness, they have some comforts in the creature, and they think them to bee glorious, for they know no better: But that soul that hath had a sight of God, comes to see that all things in the world are but darkness to him. There is nothing can disingage the heart of a man from the creature, so, as a sight of God. You have a notable Scripture for that, how a sight of God doth dis-ingage the heart of a man from the creature, in