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Gospel remission, or, A treatise showing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin…Gospel remission, or, A treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin…
Gospel remission, or, A treatise showing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin wherein is discovered the many Gospel mysteries therein contained, the glorious effects proceeding from it, the great mistakes made about it, the true signs and symptoms of it, the way and means to obtain it / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being several sermons preached immediately after those of The evil of sin by the same author, and now published by Philip Nye ... [et al.]Gospel remission, or, A treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin wherein is discovered the many Gospel mysteries therein contained, the glorious effects proceeding from it, the great mistakes made about it, the true signs and symptomes of it, the way and means to obtain it / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being several sermons preached immediately after those of The evil of sin by the same author, and now published by Philip Nye ... [et al.]
London: printed for Dor. Newman, 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of Pardon of Sin making all afflictions easy to be born.
Of Pardon of Sin making all afflictions easie to be born.
Where-ever sin is pardoned, there follows this, that any thing that befalls that man or woman is very easy to be born; an easy matter it is for any one that hath his sin pardoned to bear any affliction, and this is a great blessedness; or rather take it thus, That either such a one may be assured, that afflictions shall be removed, or otherwise made easy to be born; for pardon of sin delivers us from abundance of afflictions that otherwise might befall us in this world; though it is true, God lays many afflictions on his ⟨p. 41⟩people after their sins are forgiven, yet it is more than they know, but that if their sins had not bin forgiven they might have had other manner of miseries than they do now meet withal; perhaps you meet with some now, and more than you did before, but for ought you know, those miseries you meet with now, might have been seven-fold more than now they are, and another manner of wrath than you now think of, Isai. 40.2. Cry, her warfare is accomplished, for her iniquity is pardoned; where iniquity is pardoned, there warfare is accomplished; if afflictions be not quite removed, yet they are made very easy to be born, and that upon two grounds.
Where-ever sin is pardoned, there follows this, that any thing that befals that man or woman is very easie to be born; an easie matter it is for any one that hath his sin pardoned to bear any affliction, and this is a great blessedness; or rather take it thus, That either such a one may be assured, that afflictions shall be removed, or otherwise made easie to be born; for pardon of sin delivers us from abundance of afflictions that otherwise might befal us in this world; though it is true, God lays many afflictions on his