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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.
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.
First Scripture Expression I shall name is in Isai. 43.25. where the Lord tells his people, that he blots out their transgressions; God seems to take much delight in this Phrase, and therefore doubles it, I, even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins: Now this phrase of blotting out is taken from the custom of Tradesmen that have their Books of Accounts, wherein they enter all their Debts that are owing to them by such and such men: Now when these come to be paid, the Debt-book is crossed or blotted out; if any of you owe a debt, when you come to pay it, you call for the Debt-book to see it crossed or blotted out, and then you assure your selves you shall never hear of it more. Now you must know, that all sinners are debtors to the Lord; they are in a debt of punishment for want or failing in paying him a debt of Obedience: many men by their sin run into debt with God daily, and because God does not call for the debt presently, they think there's nothing between God and them, but carry it as if all were well; as many Gallants run into Tradesmen's debt to hang fine Clothes upon their backs, and ruffle it up and down in the world, and never think of their debts till their Creditors come and arrest them, and cast them into Goal, and there they lie in Prison, for all their ruffling it up and down in the world: Just so men and women by their sin run into debt with God, and though God do not call for the debt presently, yet they are recorded in Heaven; it is as certain that every sin of any man or woman is set down in Gods Debt-book, as any debt you owe is set down in your Creditors Book: and as certainly must your debts be called for, and satisfaction and payment made unto God for them, as certain as any Tradesman will call for payment of his debt: Now this is the work of Justification between God and your Souls, if ye would know the nature of it. When Jesus Christ sees a poor soul that God the Father hath given to him to save, thus run into debt, Christ comes and lays down a price before God the Father, to pay this debt; and Christ sees that the debt be blotted out of the Book: Now when God comes with pardoning mercy to a Soul, God shows the debt ⟨p. 65⟩Book to a Believer, and causes him to see all his debts blotted out;