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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.
Fourthly, Though they be removed as far as the East is from the West; yet God's eyes may look a great way off; though those Points be at so great a distance to our eyes, yet not so to the eye of ⟨p. 66⟩God; therefore there is another expression that may make it more full, that God will never look upon their sins again that he has once pardoned, he blots them out, he casts them behind his back, he removes them as far as the East is from the West; and if that be not enough to satisfy thee, Micah 7.19. He will cast them into the bottom of the Sea; things that are cast into the bottom of the Sea, are utterly thrown out of sight, never to be looked for again; Well, but though God cast them into the bottom of the Sea, he may think upon them. Therefore
Fourthly, Though they be remov'd as far as the East is from the West; yet God's eyes may look a great way off; though those Points be at so great a distance to our eyes, yet not so to the eye of ⟨p. 66⟩God; therefore there is another expression that may make it more full, that God will never look upon their sins again that he has once pardoned, he blots them out, he casts them behind his back, he removes them as far as the East is from the West; and if that be not enough to satisfie thee, Micah 7.19. He will cast them into the bottom of the Sea; things that are cast into the bottom of the Sea, are utterly thrown out of sight, never to be lookt for again; Well, but though God cast them into the bottom of the Sea, he may think upon them. Therefore
Fifthly, mark another expression, further to satisfy thee, God says, He will remember them no more; they shall be so far from being thought upon, that God says he will not remember them any more; but you will say, it is impossible for God but to remember them; yea, but when God pardons, it shall be as Irrevocable as if God did never remember them; there are divers Texts remarkable for this,