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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.
1Blessed is the man whose Iniquities are forgiven, because as there is no one thing hath taken up the heart of God more than this; so this is a work that all the three Persons in the Trinity are engaged in nothing more, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; as to instance.
1BLessed is the man whose Iniquities are forgiven, because as there is no one thing hath taken up the heart of God more than this; so this is a work that all the three Persons in the Trinity are ingaged in nothing more, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; as to instance.
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1. For God the Father, in Isai. 43.25. he challengeth this as his own glory, I even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my Names sake, and will not remember thy sins; it is his Prerogative, I am he, God glories in it as a peculiar, belonging to none but himself, Exod. 33.18. Moses desired to see the glory of God, and God promised to make all his goodness pass before him; and Exod. 34.6. he proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands; and then to the point in hand, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin, here's the glory of God; Would you have a demonstration indeed, that Gods heart was set upon this as the greatest work that ever was done? take it in this, that the very thoughts of effecting this by the death of his own Son, made God very well pleased and delighted with his death; surely then his heart was much set upon it; for rather than he would not effect it, he would part with his own Son: Never was there such a hideous thing as the death of the Son of God; and therefore if there were any delight to be taken in it, & that God the Father took delight in it; there must be some great thing to