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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
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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 ⟨p. 55⟩sweeten it, such an horrid thing as the death of the Son of God had need have some great thing to sweeten it; what now sweetened this to God the Father, that his own Son should be put to death? Why? nothing but this, that hereby sinners might come to be redeemed, justified and pardoned, nothing else would sweeten it to God the Father, but this does, Isai. 53.10. It pleased the Lord to bruise him; and again, the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand; the Scripture says, God takes no delight in the death of a sinner; and yet God did take delight in the death of his Son, it pleased God to see his Son bruised: when God the Father saw his Son under his wrath, sweating drops of water and blood under the curse of the Law, it pleased God well; certainly then there must be some mighty thing that must sweeten this, and make the death of his own Son a delightful object to him; Why? the very thing that did it was this, that Christ being made a curse, he thereby did redeem us from the curse, procured the pardon of our sins, and reconciled us unto God;