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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.
To the READER.
Christian Reader,
The provident care of God is manifested toward his People in the present Preservation of, and provision for them. To have the mouths of Lions stopped when we are cast into the midst of their Den; the Waters to be a wall about us on the right hand and on the left, which in their own nature and tendency would overwhelm us, to have the Bush burning, and not consumed, are as evident tokens of the good will of him that dwelt in the bush, of Gods presence with and owning of his afflicted People now, as in the days of old; yea to have Honey out of the flinty Rock, Manna in the Wilderness, a voice behind us, Saying, This is the way, walk in it; enforceth as great an obligation to admiration and thankfulness upon us, as upon the Israelites of old. Amongst the many English Prophets who are dead, and yet speak, the Reverend Author of the ensuing Treatise may challenge a place with the first Worthies: ⟨image 3⟩His Works, not my words are the best Orators to commend him: That Scripture Encomium may be written upon his Stepney and Cripplegate-Lectures,—This and that man was born there. For although many now living, do through mercy enjoy able Teachers and Instructors; yet do they owe to him the Name of Father, as an Instrument of their Conversion. I may boldly apply that saying to holy Borough's, which was once spoken of a Learned Divine beyond Sea: Meruerunt viri docti etiam post funera vivere, ac docere scriptis posteros, quos infeliciter post eos nasci contigit; in eo autem virorum ordine Burroughsium reponere, nemo praeter eum, qui propriae diffidit virtuti, prohibebit.
THe provident care of God is manifested toward his People in the present Preservation of, and provision for them. To have the mouths of Lions stopped when we are cast into the mid'st of their Den; the Waters to be a wall about us on the right hand and on the left, which in their own nature and tendency would overwhelm us, to have the Bush burning, and not consumed, are as evident tokens of the good will of him that dwelt in the bush, of Gods presence with and owning of his afflicted People now, as in the days of old; yea to have Hony out of the flinty Rock, Manna in the Wilderness, a voice behind us, Saying, This is the way, walk in it; enforceth as great an obligation to admiration and thankfulness upon us, as upon the Israelites of old. Among'st the many English Prophets who are dead, and yet speak, the Reverend Author of the ensuing Treatise may challenge a place with the first Worthies: