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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 9: Of Pardoning Mercy being an Irrevocable Mercy.
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this I confess will come upon the Conscience, specially upon the committing of any new sin; but though it do, yet if ever you have been assured of the pardon of of your sin, know, this mercy shall never be recalled again: the foundation of God standeth sure; and this is a fundamental mercy that always abides: therefore as we observed in Cant. 4.7. Christ says, Thou art all fair my Love, there is no spot in thee; but in Cant. 5.2. you shall find she was in a sleepy secure and sinful condition, as a man or woman asleep, they might do what they would with her; men might impose what they would upon her, put her in what posture they pleased, and yet she was unsensible; but yet in this condition her heart was awake, I sleep, but my heart waketh; there remained a Principle of grace alive in her: but mark what Christ said, though she confessed she was asleep; yet Christ says, Open to me my Sister, my Love, my Dove, my undefiled: this was spoken when the Church was in a secure sinful condition; yet this is the voice of Christ calling the Church his Sister, his Love, his Dove, his Undefiled one, when she was in that secure condition; which shows the grace of God in pardoning sin is not called back again: and because this is a point wherein much treasure lies, I shall a little open the Irrevocableness of Gods mercy in his Pardoning and Justifying Grace; and for this I shall give you some places of Scripture, which being opened, as they will show the greatness of the mercy; so they will afford abundant matter ⟨p. 64⟩of Consolation and Encouragement to every believing soul. The
this I confess will come upon the Conscience, specially upon the committing of any new sin; but though it do, yet if ever you have been assured of the pardon of of your sin, know, this mercy shall never be recall'd again: the foundation of God standeth sure; and this is a fundamental mercy that always abides: therefore as we observed in Cant. 4.7. Christ says, Thou art all fair my Love, there is no spot in thee; but in Cant. 5.2. you shall find she was in a sleepy secure and sinful condition, as a man or woman asleep, they might do what they would with her; men might impose what they would upon her, put her in what posture they pleased, and yet she was unsensible; but yet in this condition her heart was awake, I sleep, but my heart waketh; there remain'd a Principle of grace alive in her: but mark what Christ said, though she confest she was asleep; yet Christ says, Open to me my Sister, my Love, my Dove, my undefiled: this was spoken when the Church was in a secure sinful condition; yet this is the voyce of Christ calling the Church his Sister, his Love, his Dove, his Undefiled one, when she was in that secure condition; which shews the grace of God in pardoning sin is not call'd back again: and because this is a point wherein much treasure lies, I shall a little open the Irrevocableness of Gods mercy in his Pardoning and Justifying Grace; and for this I shall give you some places of Scripture, which being opened, as they will shew the greatness of the mercy; so they will afford abundant matter