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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 8: Of Pardoning Mercy being a Perfect Mercy.
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 he whose iniquities are forgiven, for this mercy is a perfect mercy, that is, where God doth pardon any sinner, such a one stands as perfect before God in point of Justification as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or any of the Prophets or righteous men that ever lived in the world: thou poor Soul, Man or Woman, Youth or Servant, if God come unto thee, & pardon any of your sins, thou standest as fully justified as Abraham, Paul, Peter, or any of the Apostles and Prophets; though in Sanctification thou fallest short of them, yet though art justified as perfectly as ever they were: Justification is an act that is done altogether and at once, therefore a perfect work; and this is an Argument of infinite Consolation to the Saints of God, that the great business between God and them in point of Justification is perfected; Psal. 51.7. David prays to God that he would purge him with Hyssop and he should be clean, that is, that he might be cleansed by Justification, by having the guilt of sin taken from his Conscience by a renewed act of pardon; and then as it follows, I shall be whiter than Snow: the Saints of God though they be Sanctified, they are not whiter than the snow in Sanctification, but in Justification they are whiter than the snow; no spot at all in them, Ephes. 5.27. Christ presents his Church unto himself without spot; in point of Justification every believing soul is without spot before the Lord, Numb. 23.21. He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob; that is, though God knows there is iniquity there, yet he sees is not to charge them with it, or impute it to them; all is done away in that regard by Justification: it is observable to this purpose, what we have ⟨p. 61⟩in Cant. 4.7. Thou art all fair my love, there is no spot in thee, no spot in thee; there are spots in respect of Sanctification; yea, but in respect of Justification it may be said of her, There is no spot at all in thee; Thou art all fair my Love, it is the words of Christ, he comes forth and says, Thou art all fair my Love: Alas, when the Believer looks upon himself, his own duties and performances, he sees nothing at all but spots, all besmeared and bespattered all over; why, though thou lookest on thy self be spotted, yet Christ looks upon thee without spot, and God the Father looks upon thee through Christ without spot, and says, Thou art all fair, there is no spot in thee;