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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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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, Isai. 43.25. I will blot out thy transgressions,—and will not remember thy sins: I, may be not now (thou mayst say) But he will hereafter; see what is said in Jer. 31.34. I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more; neither now nor hereafter, I will remember their sin no more.
Fifthly, mark another expression, further to satisfie 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, Isai. 43.25. I will blot out thy transgressions,—and will not remember thy sins: I, may be not now (thou may'st say) But he will hereafter; see what is said in Jer. 31.34. I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more; neither now nor hereafter, I will remember their sin no more.
Sixthly, They shall be so forgiven, as that there shall be no more mention of them; there shall never be the least mention of a believers sins before God, and for that see Ezek. 33.16. it is spoken of every godly man indefinitely that turns to God, and is a Believer, None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him; by the way, let men take heed how they upbraid the people of God for any of their former sins: Perhaps you knew such a one in the times of his ignorance, and you say he was a liar, a Drunkard; but now God has revealed his mercy to him in the pardon of his sin, and God says he will not mention them any more: Take heed how you cast their sins, committed in the times of their ignorance, in their teeth, saying, oh you are so precise now, I knew what you were a little before; Shall the God of Heaven say, he will not mention them any more; and yet will you do it? God will take it very ill, at your hands: this is admirable comfort to every Believer, that God will not remember their sin any more; he would have thee to