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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 Security against the worlds Reproaches, the fruit of Pardoning Mercy.
7. Where God hath forgiven sin, such a one need not care for the censures of all the world, and the reproaches they cast upon him; the men of the world cast many reproaches on the Saints, and say, they are hypocrites, that though they will not swear, yet they ⟨p. 47⟩will lie; that they are false, proud, and the like; Why? now the soul that finds it self acquitted before the Lord, need not care for all the censures and condemnations that can be cast upon him from the men of the world, Rom. 8.33. Having spoken before of the great grace of God in Justification, in vers. 33. he speaks as if he had made a challenge to all the world, let them all come in, let me see Who can lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? Why? because it is God that justifies: many will charge them of grievous things; I but it is God that justifies: What will a man care if the Prince have given him a pardon, though some kitchen boy, some shakeril about the Court should rail against him, so long as the King hath pardoned him; Bernard hath a notable speech concerning David when Shimei railed, David was not troubled says he, he did not feel the injury heaped upon him, because he had felt before the grace of God towards him; the feeling of Gods grace towards him in pardoning, made him not feel the railings of Shimei; so Christ himself, Isai. 50. ver. 7. he said before, I gave my back to the smiters, and hid not my face from shame and spitting; they spit upon him: this is apparently spoken of Christ; but what upheld him, vers. 7. For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded for all this; therefore have I set my face like a flint against all scorns, railings, and accusations in the world; but what was the bottom of all this? mark, vers. 8. He is near that justifies me, who will contend with me? let us stand together: Who is my Adversary? let him come near to me; let my Adversary come and do his worst, he is near that justifies me: true, Christ had no sin personally to be pardoned; but he had the sins of all the Elect charged upon him, and upon that he suffered death. Now we are to know, Christ is justified as well as Believer; and the very ground why a Believer is justified, it is because Christ is justified himself; Christ being justified, a Believer comes to be justified; this might have been opened in the mysteries of Pardon of Sin: