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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
Gospel Remission. › Chapter 4 › Part 9: Of Pardon of Sin being the bottom of all true Comfort.
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Of Pardon of Sin being the bottom of all true Comfort.
9. Blessed is he that hath his sin pardoned; for pardon of sin is the very bottom of all true comfort: Be of good comfort your sins are forgiven; if Christ speak but this word to a soul, though he be never so much dejected, it is enough to raise any drooping soul ⟨p. 49⟩from the gates of Hell it self. Be of good comfort oh soul, thy sins are forgiven thee, Isai. 40.2. Speak you comfortable to her, for her iniquities are pardoned: God calls to comfort her when her iniquities are pardoned, this is the foundation of all true comfort: if you lay any other foundation to build your comforts on, certainly that building will totter and come to nothing, if this be not the foundation: You would fain have comfort, and you are every one looking out for comfort; and indeed it is as natural for the soul of man to seek for comfort, as it is for the fire to burn: there's no man but would fain have comfort; now look to the foundation if you would not have the building totter, lay a good foundation: Many lay the foundation of their comforts in their sins, and others in the creatures; but thou must lay it in the pardon of thy sin, in the free grace of God justifying thy soul, and that building will hold; lay it there and thou shalt be comforted here and for ever hereafter. And thus we have done with that Particular, That Pardon of Sin is a great mercy, because it is a foundation and inlet to many other mercies: Blessed is the man that hath his iniquities forgiven, that hath such a grand mercy, upon which many other mercies follow.