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A85953	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.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1660 (1660)	Wing G6083; Thomason E1029_1; ESTC R208881	280,310	387

is as much as in any thing and that is that he doth now exercise it in heaven at the right hand of the Father by his intercession for so the Scripture saith in the eighth of the Hebrews That we have such an high Priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens and there he is making intercession As the Priest you know in the time of the Law did exercise his Priestly Office not only by offering Sacrifice but by going into the Holy of Holies and there had the names of the Tribes ingraven upon his brest and so presented them before God and made intercession for all the Tribes Also Christ he is our wonderful High Priest for he having offered himself a Sacrifice to the Justice of his Father hee is gone to Heaven and hath the names of all Beleevers upon his brest upon his heart and there presents them all before his Father and is their Advocate makes intercession for them hee is alwayes holding before the Father all his Sufferings as it were pleading before God the Father for them Why thou art a poor Creature here and art it may be fallen down in thy closet pleading with God for mercy and thou art discouraged for the straitnesse of thy heart and the like but now learn how to make use of thy faith look upon Jesus Christ hee is the object of thy faith I but you must beleeve in Christ as the High Priest that is gone before into Heaven and now is at the right hand of the Father making intercession for thy soul It may bee thou art discouraged because thy prayers are poor and weak I but thy faith must bee exercised upon that God-man who is pleading with God the Father for thee and that by his own merits that are worth more than ten thousand thousand Worlds and except you doe exercise your faith upon Christ as a Priest thus you doe not exercise your faith aright Oh what strangers are most people in the world to the exercising of faith I appeal to you when did you exercise your faith upon Christ as such an High Priest you would see him to be a wonderful Saviour indeed if by the eye of faith you did behold him to be thus Thus he is wonderful in his Priestly Office oh what wonderful things are these if they were made real to us by faith How wonderful would be the comfort and joy of the Saints of God in the exercising of their faith upon this that I doe but now name unto you whereby as wee goe along you may see how farre short you have come from exercising your faith upon Christ as such a Saviour as the Scripture doth present him to you 9 Again his Priestly Office endures for ever hee lives for ever to make intercession the Priests in the Law they dyed but Christ he is a Priest for ever and hee makes intercession himself he hath no Deputy nor no Successors as others had but he himself makes intercession for ever for his people and his Priest-hood is confirmed by an Oath Psal 110.41 The Lord sware the Lord by an Oath confirmed the Priesthood of Christ after the order of Melchisedeck to the end that we might bee the more sure of such a wonderful mercy of God to Mankind that is the reason that he added an Oath to the Priest-hood of Christ because that aymed at higher things than the Priest-hood of Aaron did that was but an external Priest-hood but this ayming at such high things yea that Sacrifice that must bee tendered up to God for a full attonement for the sin of Mankind therefore God confirmed this by an Oath for beleevers when they hear such things those that are weak I but Lord think they are these things so is it possible that God should have such thoughts of Mankind to work so wonderful for mans Salvation therefore saith God I have confirmed this by an oath And then this Priest-hood of Christ is a Priest-hood of a better covenant the other was but after a carnal Commandement and in comparison of this it was but an external covenant for there was certainly a covenant of Works besides that of Grace that God did renew with the people of Israel even when he gave the Law the Ceremonial Law did not only typifie the Covenant of Grace that should bee revealed hereafter more fully but it was annexed to the Covenant of Works as it appears plainly in the Epistle to the Hebrews but yet still I say they had a Covenant of Grace that was coucht darkly in the Ceremonial Law therefore Christ is said to be a Mediator of a better Covenant he comes to deal between God and Man in a better Covenant than was before And then further the Priest-hood of Christ it comes to have more efficacy than that of Aaron had for it prevails to the purging of conscience which that could not doe And it brings the Saints into the Holy of Holies and that with boldnesse and for that you have a most excellent Scripture of the Saints being brought into the Holy of Holies by the Priest-hood of Christ in the tenth to the Hebrews Having therefore boldnesse to enter into the holiest by the bloud of Jesus Heb. 10.19 by the Sacrifice that this our Priest hath offered to the Father we come to enter into the Holiest of all and that with boldnesse It was not so in the time of the Law no but after the High Priest had offered Sacrifice hee alone goes into the Holy of Holies but now mark here not only Christ our High Priest but we may come with boldnesse which none of the people could doe in the Law that is thus there is such an efficacy in the Sacrifice of our High Priest as that every beleever may come though hee hath never so many sins of his own he may come with boldnesse into the Holy of Holies into the most immediate presence of God the Father through the sacrifice of this our Priest that hath made such a way by his Bloud for us to come and enter into the Holy of Holies the People in the time of the Law were to stand at a distance for this Sacrifice was not actually offered but since Christs coming and his actual offering up his Sacrifice now the Saints of God may come with boldnesse into the holy immediate and glorious presence of God that can bee let God appear never so gloriously yet the Saints have liberty and boldnesse to come into the most glorious presence of God and therefore Christ is wonderful in this Priestly Office of his Two or three things more should have been spoken That Christ hath made us Priests unto God wee have the glory of his Priest-hood upon our selves if wee belong unto him Priests that wee may offer up Sacrifice to God now acceptable were it not through the vertue of this Priestly Office of Christ we could not doe it But it is by the Priestly

is when a man shall resolutely give up himself to all manner of wickedness Thus it is said of Ahab 1 King 21.20 Ahab sold himself to work wickedness that is Ahab in a resolute way was set upon any manner of wickedness that might serve his own turn When a man shall bee set upon this that what ever way of wickedness may bee subservient to the attaining of such and such designs that I have I will venture upon it I say this man sells his soul in this case to the Devil Ahab sold himself to work wickedness Sixthly And then a sixth way of mens losing their souls it is by being poisoned their souls are poisoned and so they come to bee lost now the poison of the soul it is either wicked company or wicked errours either of those two By keeping of wicked company thou keepest in an infectious Air thou goest from home sometimes and meetest with such wicked company thou gettest thy bain thy poison there and poison works divers waies sometimes it will cause one to swell mightily how many when they come from their wicked company come home with such swelling hearts in such an outragious way swearing and fighting and blaspheming and scorning and contemning at all waies of godliness now these have been abroad and have gotten poison and so they shall and are ready to burst with it Now there are other kinds of poison that will not work till a quarter or half a year after A man may go into company and get his bain and yet not work till a quarter of a year after As I remember a Philosopher seeing two women that were wicked talk together Oh! saith hee now the Viper is taking of poison from the Asp and indeed it seemed to bee a Proverb in Tertullians time for I meet with such a proverbial speech in him as that the Viper borrows poison from the Asp so when wicked company are infusing wicked principles here is the poison gotten from the Asp wicked company perhaps they come with their sweet cups and perhaps thou drinkest down the Wine merrily but together with the Wine wicked things are infused into thy spirit that are poisonful When thou art in wicked company and hearest the waies of God spoken against and hearest the Saints of God railed on and the good Word of God spoken against and this thou drawest into thy heart oh there is poison goes down in this cup it is like to poison thy soul and to be thy undoing for ever And then there is another kind of venome and that is wicked errours and heresies when men drink off the Cup of Fornication as when they are taken with the great errours of Popery this poisons the soul that place in the Thessalonians is a most dreadful place even for that very errour 2 Thessalonians 2.11 Speaking of Antichrist that hee should come with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might bee saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeve a lye that they all might bee damned who beleeve not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse This is a most dreadful Text against those that shall drink in the errours of Popery But you will say that they are learned men and have a great deal of shew of truth with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness But how art thou deceived by them because thou receivest not the love of the truth that thou mightest bee saved And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions to beleeve a lye that they might bee damned to that end God sends strong delusions that men might beleeve those errours and drink in that cup of fornications that they might bee damned for ever If it were but onely that one errour drunk down in the grosness of it that is that the righteousness that I must tender up to God for satisfaction to divine Justice and for my eternal salvation must bee mine own righteousness mine own works Here is enough to poison a soul to eternal perdition and many other waies there may bee that may indanger the soul extreamly and very ill consequences may bee gathered from good principles As for that principle of our Justification by free Grace in Christ That it is onely by Christ that wee are justified that principle is exceeding good but from thence such dangerous venomous consequences may bee drawn as may extreamly indanger and I make no question do invenome and poison many thousand souls upon which they draw consequences for looseness and against humiliation for sin and against obedience to the Law as by Moses All the principles and errours that are against the strict waies of God that tend to any looseness certainly they are invenoming principles Oh take heed of any doctrine of any conceits of any opinions that do any way tend to looseness they will certainly poison and invenome your souls so that your very errours may bee enough to damn you eternally Many lose their souls by poisoning Seventhly And there are many that lose their souls by venturing of them there are many ventures upon which many come to lose their souls there are four cases wherein a man may lose his soul by venturing of it First As first by rashnesse men that are inconsiderate and rash in their waies that will suddenly fall upon things before they examine them that rashnesse and suddennesse of thine to fall upon things before thou dost examine them and to go on in a rash way the most part of thy life as many do this indangers the loss of thy soul Secondly And others venture the losse of their souls by doing things that are doubtful that their consciences mis-give them in and tell them Oh this is not right I doubt I sin against God in this and yet they will put on and venture before they satisfie their doubts but take heed of doing any thing with a doubtful conscience for you know what the Scripture saith in the 14. of the Romans the latter end Whatsoever is not of Faith is sin If thou doubtest thou must not venture to do a thing till thou hast examined thy doubt and there see upon what ground thy doubt is built for if thou wilt presume to do a thing doubtfully it may cost thee thy life Thirdly A third venture it is to venture upon Gods patience why the Lord is a patient God and hee hath spared mee so many years all this while I have been spared and have done well enough why may not I hope that God will spare mee still and bee patient with mee still how many wretched sinful creatures venture upon this they perhaps have been brought up in wickednesse and prophanenesse God hath been patient towards them and yet they can to their sin again and again and live very merry lives Now all this time thou livest upon the meer patience of God and thou thinkest because God hath been patient

world that knew him not that had no interest in him and the like and then was promised Therefore seeing there are so many poor wretched creatures so many Families that live without a God in the world that know nothing of him and live as if they expected nothing from him and fear no evil to come from him at all therefore wee promised to labour to set forth before you somewhat of God that might help you to know him to shew you what hee is And to that end turn to that Scripture Psal 148. part of the 13. verse For his Name alone is excellent Text. THis Psalm is a Psalm of praise praising of God for all the glorious manifestations of himself in his great Works and calling upon all creatures to praise him because hee is glorious in every creature but the Psalmist rests not in this in praising God for the glory of him that appears in the creatures but hee rise● higher and takes indeed the rise from thence to praise and bless God for what there is in himself above that which doth appear in any creature For so it is clear that to this the Psalmist doth arise in my Text Let them praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is excellent his glory is above the Earth and Heaven The Earth and Heaven and all creatures therein are called to praise Gods name and David praises the name of God for what appeared there but saith hee Praise the Lord for his Name alone is excellent and his glory is above the Earth and Heaven His Name the Name of God is either taken for God himself or for the manifestation of God often in Scripture for God himself Prov. 18.10 as The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous run unto it and are safe that is God himself Hee is the strength and Tower hee is the object of the trust of his people and so other Scriptures or otherwise that whereby God may bee known Psal 76.1 His Name is great in Israel And here we are to understand both for his Name alone is excellent that is God himself is excellent alone the Name of him of him alone is high is lifted up is excellent and that wee are to understand by the Name of God here God himself as well as his Manifestations appears in the words at the end of the verse His glory is above the earth and heaven Now Gods manifestation is either in heaven or earth But there is a further glory of God that is in himself that is beyond all that is or can bee manifested in or to any creature so that from the words thus opened there are these two doctrinal Points one I wil but only touch it is raised from the connexion of the words with the former and the other that is the substance of the Text that wee shall abide a while upon The first is this That a gracious heart is not satisfied with praising God onely for his works but rises higher to praise him and especially to praise him for himself for that that it sees in himself I say a gracious heart doth not stick in the Works of God nor is it onely inlarged to praise God for what it sees in Gods works but it will rise higher than all the works of God and praise him especially for that it sees in himself Thy self O Lord is excellent the glory that is in thy self it is above the earth and above the heaven While wee praise God for what wee see in his works our thoughts and hearts are limited for Gods manifestations of himself are finite and so there is not that spaciousness that a gracious heart desires to let our its self in but when it can rise up to God himself and look at the infinite excellency that there is in himself above all that doth appear in his works then the heart inlarged with grace can expatiate it self to the uttermost and that is that which doth delight him then is a gracious heart indeed in its own element when it is expatiating it self even in God himself And further God in setting himself before the soul in way of Covenant Jer. 31.33.32.39.24.7 Ezek. 11 2● Gen. 15.1 hee doth not onely tell those that hee takes into Covenant that hee will do such and such things for them but hee would have them to close with himself I will bee your God The Lord told Abraham that hee would bee his exceeding great reward but that would not satisfie Abraham What wilt thou give mee Vers 2. having an eye to Christ and the enjoyment of God in him so let God say that hee will do never such things for a gracious heart that is not enough except God himself bee the portion of the soul the soul cannot bee satisfied with any thing that God doth if God should say to one whose heart he hath inlarged with grace I will give thee all the world to possess thou shalt have all the glory all the pomp all the sweetness all the comforts in the world nay more than that I will make ten thousand worlds more and give thee them all and they shall have all of them more excellency than this present world hath why all this would not satisfie a heart inlarged with grace for the portion of it though such a one sees its self unworthy of the least crum of bread yet it cannot bee satisfied with all the world what then will satisfie him onely God himself for so God propounds himse f unto his people in way of Covenant Psal 16.5 I will bee thy God I will bee your portion And upon this those that are in Covenant with him though they do rejoyce to see God manifesting himself in all his Names they bless God for the beholding so much as they do of him in his works but the thing that their hearts are most upon is God himself the excellency that there is in God above all his works And as it is in praising God so also it is in other workings of the heart towards God as now grace doth not love God so much for what God gives to it as for what God is himself that is the difference between true sanctifying grace and common grace common grace may make mee love God for what I receive from him o● for what I hope to receive from him but sanctifying grace makes mee to love God for what is in himself more than for what I receive from him or expect to receive and so there may bee the fear of God for some works of God when God doth manifest his power and dreadfulness in his works in thundring or lightening then the heart of a sinner may fear God though there bee no grace but now where there is grace such a one fears God more because of that excellency hee sees in God himself than from any dreadful works of God and this would bee a good rule to try your selves by You say you

And the truth is there is no such way to set out the Justice of God as to shew the dealing of God with his Son for the sin of man If I would preach but one Sermon that should bee my last of the Terribleness of Gods Justice I would speak of some Scripture that should shew the terribleness of the dealing of God with his Son and that would set out the Justice of God to bee a great deal more glorious than any thing else The glory of Gods Mercy appears in Christ And so the glory of Gods mercy and goodness is more in Christ than any other thing wee injoy these outward comforts as a fruit of the bounty and goodness of God I but what are all these to all the love of God in his Son I remember a learned man compares all the good things wee receive from God from his general bounty and providence and his love and mercy that appears in Christ with a few sparks that come out of a burning furnace and the heat of it within look what difference there is between them such difference is there between the love of God to us in all the comforts in this world and the love of God in Jesus Christ God hee would have an Argument to manifest the infiniteness of his love unto his creatures and no such Argument as this So God loved the world that hee sent forth his onely begotten Son Joh. 3.16 And so the glory of Gods Truth that is manifested in fulfilling Promises The glory of Gods Truth appears in Christ any promise that is fulfilled manifests the glory of Gods truth and faithfulness but now the fulfilling that great Promise of God in sending his Son into the world here the truth and faithfulness of God appears more gloriously than in all other for there was never a promise so difficult as this promise many men can bee content to fulfil promises of smaller moment when there is no great difficulty in the fulfilling of them I but here is the greatest Promise that ever was and there was the greatest difficulty for God to fulfil this promise of any thing that ever God did promise and indeed when as wee hear that Christ was promised some four thousand years before hee came into the world and yet at length hee came into the world it is a good Argument to teach us never to doubt of the fulfilling of Gods promises And indeed the right apprehension of Gods faithfulness in this great Promise of his Son will mightily strengthen the faith of the people of God to beleeve any smaller promises and not to stagger in them and the reason why people are so ready to stagger in their beleef about smaller promises it is because they have not been acquainted with the work of faith in beleeving that great promise that God made with his people in sending his Son into the world so that these Attributes with all other do shine gloriously in Christ No marvel then though the Angels upon the birth of Christ they cry out Glory bee to God on high as if they should say Oh Lord Here is one come into the world wherein thy glory doth appear and by whom thou shalt have glory to all eternity Though Christ was but a Babe in the Manger yet the Angels did see more glory in him than in the highest heavens they did not see so much cause to cry Glory bee to God on high from any object that ever they saw as when they saw the Babe in the Manger then Oh glory bee to God on high wee behold thy glory shining here and blessed are those that shall bee inabled to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ who would not but have beheld the glory of God in his great works what man or woman that hath any knowledge of God at all would for a world but have beheld so much of the glory of God as doth appear in the great Works of Creation and Providence Oh what comfort have the Saints in beholding the glory of the great God when they look up unto heaven and upon the earth and in the seas Oh but then the sweetness and soul-satisfaction that there must needs bee in the beholding the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ And this by the way would bee a good evidence of your faith have you beheld more of Gods glory in the face of Christ than ever you did in all the world besides Yea and hath the glory of God in the face of Christ darkned all the glory of the world besides unto you Have your hearts been taken with that glory more than with all the glory that there is in the world Why here would bee a good evidence of faith indeed that you have had a true and real fight of Jesus Christ wee cannot have a real sight of Jesus Christ but wee must certainly see more of God in him than in all things else The glory of Gods great works in bringing man to his eternal estate appears in Christ Eph. 1.4 And then secondly As the glory of Gods Attributes so the glory of the great Counsels and Works of God especially in the governing of man unto his eternal estate that appears in Christ above all As the great Counsels of God in Election Wee are chosen in Christ the great Counsels and Works of God in Vocation Justification Adoption Reconciliation Sanctification and Glorification these are the great Works that God doth glorifie himself in these are the great things that the thoughts and counsels of God hath been from all eternity exercised about whatsoever your thoughts are exercised about yet I say the thoughts and counsels of God have been exercised from all eternity about these great Works of his Election Vocation Justification Adoption Reconciliation Sanctification Glorification all these Works whereby hee doth order and guide mankinde unto an eternal estate Now the glory of God in all these Works they are in Christ Christ hee is the head of our Election and all are chosen in him what is Vocation but a calling unto Christ and revealing Christ to the soul And so Justification it is in Christ still And wee are made children adopted in him and reconciled in him and sanctified through him and are to bee glorified through him all these great Works about which the heart of God is so much busied the glory of God in all these it doth shine in the face of Christ and without the knowledge of Christ wee could never come to know any of these things What could the heathen know of Gods eternal Election or Vocation or Justification or Adoption or Glorification to speak such words to the Heathens as these are in reference to God it would bee barbarism But now these are the great things of God that are revealed to Christians by Jesus Christ wee come to have all these glorious counsels of God in these great works of his to bee opened to us and Christ