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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

well as a Saviour None of them did look upon Jesus Christ that hee might deliver their souls from the power of their sin and work righteousness in them as well as deliver them from the wrath that is to come Therefore though some of them would bee glad to bee saved from hell by Christ yet to look upon Christ in regard of his purity and holiness as altogether lovely this none of them could do Thirdly and lastly None of them did lift up God as the highest end of all and give up themselves and all that they had or were or could do being empty of themselves so as to lift up God as revealed in Christ as the highest end so as God and Christ to bee all in all to their souls they went not thus far And therefore do not think that it is a putting people to great streights to tell them how far many went whose souls were lost and if they went no further their souls would likewise bee eternally lost Now then these things being so what remains but that you should lay them to your hearts Oh lay them to your hearts and if God would but bee pleased this evening to cause every one in this Congregation to examine themselves and call their souls into question O my soul how is it with thee how do things stand between God and thee art thou in such an estate as if God should call for thee out of the body this moment that thou shouldest bee saved Oh bee not satisfied in any thing in the world till you come to a resolution in these things And if you finde that these things speak against you and your souls bee cast by them for the present do not sleight them for verily God will make them good upon thee these things shall stand when thy soul shall perish Wherefore then this is the last use about this point of the dreadful loss of the soul Use Oh then let every man or woman propound this question Act. 16.30 What shall I then do to bee saved The world is troubled with a great many questions at this day questions that have no great necessity in them but here is the great question Men and Brethren what shall I do to bee saved And if people when they meet together would bee taken up and bee asking of this question one of another it would prevent a great many wrangling and jangling questions that men spend their time in oh when they are asking of you many such vain questions answer those vain questions but thus I but do you know how one may do to be saved tell mee something of the way of God about the salvation of my soul and that is that that both Ministers and Christians should most aim at to help one another in they should not fill peoples heads with curious questions and specially young ones for that is a great deceit of the Devil at this day There was never a time wherein there was a more hopeful harvest of young ones than there was two or three years since in England and in this City and because the Devil saw it was in vain to tempt their hearts to their former prophaneness hee labours by all means to cause them to fall into the hands of vain jangling people that shall fill their heads with a great many curious questions about controversies and things that they do not understand and so take away the very strength and life of the work of the Word upon them when as the Scripture tells us plainly that wee must not receive the weak in Faith unto doubtful disputations Rom. 14.1 But Object You will say wee must inquire after all truths Answ It is true but seasonably in their due time It is not for young converts before they bee setled in the main things of Religion to have their heads filled with doubtful disputations it is the plain Scripture and it is as plain if wee would understand it as Thou shalt not steal or commit adultery oh this hath hindered the salvation of many a soul Now therefore this is that that I would aim at to turn the strength of your souls into this great question What shall wee do to bee saved in Ecclesiastes 7. saith the wise man there God hath made man upright but hee hath found to himself many inventions so your books have it but I finde it translated in the old Lattin Hee hath mingled himself with many questions so they turn the phrase Now the Lord take off your hearts from those and give you hearts to attend to this great question What shall wee do to bee saved It was the question you know of the Jaylor in Act. 16.30 And it concerns those that yet have not assurance of what condition their souls are in for salvation to ask this question speedily and not to put it off till they come to sickness and death and then send for Ministers and godly Christians and say Oh! what shall I do how many upon their sick and death beds that never minded to inquire before what they should do to bee saved the● are in dreadful anguish and then cry out Oh what shall I do Oh the distressed condition I am in I am afraid my soul is lost for ever what shall I do why dost thou ask it now is this question to ask now when thy soul is going before the great and dreadful God to have the sentence of its eternal doom to bee past upon it Oh it concerns you betimes you young ones as soon as ever you come to know you have souls it concerns you to bee asking this great question What shall I do to bee saved And wee have an example of this of a young man that Christ lookt upon in love because hee was inquisitive about the salvation of his soul the story is in Matth. 19.16 Behold one came and said unto him Good Master what good thing shall I do that I may inherit eternal life and vers 20. It appears that this was a young man The young man saith unto him All these things have I done Oh it were a comely thing for young men to come to Christ and say What shall wee do to have eternal life and it appears that hee was a young Gentleman a man of great possessions and hee is called in the Gospel by St. Luke a Ruler some Interpreters think that that was meant onely in the family for the Jews had some chief in the family that did rule and govern there but this young man hee comes to Christ and that running Mark 10.17 as in Mark 10. where you have the story and Christ lookt upon him and loved him as in vers 21. Oh it is a lovely thing to see young people begin betimes to inquire what they should do to bee saved and wee have had great hopes of young people but here is the policy of the Devil when the Lord was bringing the greatest harvest of young people within this three or four years

and woman thou art not undone for thy soul is safe Lord strike saith Luther strike onely pardon my sin And my Brethren well may you bee incouraged to undergo any difficulties and to bear the loss of the comforts of this world for the saving of your souls for indeed the Lord hath granted to us the way of salvation of souls at an easier rate than our Forefathers had If I should but tell you the way that many of our Forefathers had for the saving of their souls and many of the Saints of God in former times you would have said then that it was a difficult way to save souls and go to Heaven As I will but give you an instance of one man and another woman how hardly they came to salvation That blessed Martyr Bensesius see but what a way hee had to Heaven for profession of Christian Religion The Persecutors came to him and because hee would not deny the Truth they strike his body in all his members out if joynt and when they had done that they make wounds in all parts of his body then thirdly they bring Iron combs sharpened and so rake upon his body thus wounded and when they had done that they laid him upon an Iron grate and with instruments of Iron open those wounds and after that they melt hot burning salt and strew it upon those wounds being opened and then they come with hot Irons and fear him with those hot Irons and after that dragg him by the heels into a dungeon where they had prepared sharp shells and there hee lay and perished here is one that went to Heaven upon hard terms you will say but God calls not you to do so but to deny your selves in some base lust in some sinful and ungodly way in something that you may spare that you may spare as well as the water out of your shooes as wee use to say And then of a woman that was of Noble birth and yet shee being convented for Religion and answering boldly and resolutely and would not yeeld after many temptations and fair speeches they dragged her by the hair of the head from the seat of Judicature and having dragged her they pull off one joynt from another and having done that get the teeth and claws of wilde beasts and rake her flesh from the bones and having afterwards done that then they came with hot Irons and Torches and burning flames one of one side and another of another side and scorch and burn her to death in such a way as that was and yet shee goes on constantly so bee it shee might save her soul shee was willing to indure all this misery wee do not know what God may call you to before you die many of our Brethren have suffered very hard things and God may call you to hard things Oh that this Text might prepare you And now my Brethren as it hath been a means to carry others thorow temptations and many difficulties in this world so if you would lay but these truths to your hearts and if you cannot think of every particular passage yet do but think of the Text and take but this one Note and that is that whereas God calls others to spend their strength in suffering so great evils to save their souls bee you willing to spend the strength that God spares you in doing in serving spend your strength in active obedience so much the more by how much the less you are called to spend it in the way of passive obedience that so you may have cause to bless God for ever in Heaven when you shall come to see soul and body to bee blessed and saved eternally you may bless God for ever in Heaven for revealing such a truth and setting home such a Text What shall it profit a man though hee gain the whole world and lose his soul and what shall a man give in exchange for his soul FINIS Books printed for and sold by Thomas Parkhurst at the three Crowns over against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheapside Folios A Practical Commentary or an Exposition with Observations Reasons and Uses upon the first Epistle General of John By that pious and worthy Divine Master John Cot●on Pastor of Bostox in New-England A Learned Commentary or Exposition upon the first Chapter of the second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians being the substance of many Sermons formerly Preached at Grayes-Inne London by that Reverend and judicious Divine Richard Sibbs D. D. sometimes Master of Katherine-Hall in Cambridge and Preacher to that Honourable Society Published for the publick good and benefit of the Church of Christ by Tho. Manton B. D. and Preacher of the Gospel at Stoake-Newington near London 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Divine Characters in two parts acutely distinguishing the more secret and undiscerned differences between 1. The Hypocrite in his best dress of seeming vertue and formal duties And the true Christian in his real graces and sincere obedience As also between the blackest weeds of daily infirmities of the truly godly eclipsing saving grace and the reigning sins of the unregenerate that pretend unto that godliness they never had By that late burning and shining Lamp Mr. Samuel Crook B. D. late Pastor of Wrington in Sommerset A Commentary upon the Divine Revelation of the Apostle and Evangelist John By David Pareus sometimes Professour of Divinity in the University of Heidelburg And specially some things upon the twentieth Chapter are observed by the same Author against the Millenaries Translated out of the Latine into English by Elias Arnold Quartoes A Theatre of flying Infects wherein especially the manner of right ordering the Bee is excellently described with discourses Historical and Physical concerning them with a Second part of Meditations and Observations Theological and Moral in three Centuries upon the same subject by Samuel Purchas M. A. Peoples Need of a living Pastor at the Funeral of Mr. Iohn Frost M. A. by Mr. Zach. Crofton 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Saint's Worthiness and the World's worthlesness both opened and declared in a Sermon preached at the Funeral of that eminently Religious and highly honoured Knight Sir Nathanael Barnardiston Aug. 26. 1653. By Samuel Faireclough Pastor of the Congregation at Ketton Holy things for holy men or the Lawyers Plea non-suited c. In some Christian reproof and pitty expressed towards M. Prynn's book intituled The Lord's Supper briefly Vindicated by S. S. Minister of the Gospel An Antid te against H. Haggar's poysonous Pamphlet intituled The Foundation of the Font discovered or a reply wherein his audaciousness and sophistry in arguing against Infant-Baptism Discipleship Church-membership is detected his cavils against M. C. M. B. and M. Hall are answered c. By A. Houghton Minister of the Gospel at Prees in Salop. Large Octavoes Four profitable Treatises very useful for Christian practice viz. The Killing power of the Law The Spiritual Watch The New Birth Of the Sabbath By the