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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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and by that he certainly assures the Soul his debt shall never be called for again, this is such a mercy as is irrevocable, it shall not be brought back again, the debt being once paid shall never more be called for; this is the first expression, and it is a blessed one: Many men that are run into debt, and are in danger every hour to have some Bailiffs arrest them, they cannot look out of their doors but they are ready to fall upon them; they would think themselves happy, if they might have any that would come and lay down all, and satisfy the debt, and that they might see the debt blotted out, they would think themselves happy indeed: Well, know that it is so with God when he comes to pardon sin, the Debt-book is blotted out, and all Bonds cancelled.
and by that he certainly assures the Soul his debt shall never be called for again, this is such a mercy as is irrevocable, it shall not be brought back again, the debt being once paid shall never more be call'd for; this is the first expression, and it is a blessed one: Many men that are run into debt, and are in danger every hour to have some Bayliffs arrest them, they cannot look out of their doors but they are ready to fall upon them; they would think themselves happy, if they might have any that would come and lay down all, and satisfie the debt, and that they might see the debt blotted out, they would think themselves happy indeed: Well, know that it is so with God when he comes to pardon sin, the Debt-book is blotted out, and all Bonds cancell'd.
Secondly, Though they be blotted out, yet they may be before Gods face, and God may see them, though he will not call for them again; therefore the Scripture tells us, that God will take that course with the sins of Believers as that he will cast them behind his back, and never so much as lay the debt before his face to look upon them, Isai. 38.17. Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back; that which Hezekiah spake of himself, is true of every believing soul, God casts the sins of every Believer behind his back; when a man casts a thing behind his back, he does it to that end, that he might take no farther notice of it; but though God cast a mans sins behind his back, yet if they be not very far, he may easily turn his face and look upon them when he will: therefore mark further,