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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
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.
from this we may see, that if a soul was possest of the evil of sin, and the danger of condemnation, the necessity and great consequence of a pardon; what a mighty means would it be to take off your thoughts from other things, and turn them upon this; and certainly, who ever you are, whose thoughts are not mightily taken up about this great subject of the pardon of your sins, you take the name of God in vain, and do not sanctify him in this great work of his; and know this, you that spend your days sleeping in security, your damnation sleeps and slumbers not; and until your sin be pardoned, the infinite justice of God is working your doom, for the full satisfaction of it, that is the first thing they dishonour God that go on in secure courses without minding such a great thing as the pardon of sin is.
from this we may see, that if a soul was possest of the evil of sin, and the danger of condemnation, the necessity and great consequence of a pardon; what a mighty means would it be to take off your thoughts from other things, and turn them upon this; and certainly, who ever you are, whose thoughts are not mightily taken up about this great subject of the pardon of your sins, you take the name of God in vain, and do not sanctifie him in this great work of his; and know this, you that spend your days sleeping in security, your damnation sleeps and slumbers not; and until your sin be pardoned, the infinite justice of God is working your doom, for the full satisfaction of it, that is the first thing they dishonour God that go on in secure courses without minding such a great thing as the pardon of sin is.
Secondly, Others dishonour God, who in stead of making it their great business in this world to get their sin pardoned, they make it their great work to increase the guilt of sin, by heaping up more and more guilt and so make the flame greater, and add to it continually; you would think it a very unreasonable and desperate thing in a man, that being condemned to some grievous and dreadful death, yet there being a pardon propounded, and some possibility of it, and a friend for this very end get a Reprieval of the King for two or three days, that he might have time to sue out his Pardon; suppose such a thing: Now then, if this man in this time of Reprieval that is given for this very end, to seek a Pardon, should call for good cheer and music, merriment and sporting, and not only so, but fall into railing against the Prince, increase his guilt, and provoke the Prince more and more against him; Would not every man say, this man is worthy of the greatest extreme tormentingest death that could be devised? Nay, I suppose, should you hear of such an one condemned to die, and had his life given him for this very end, you would think, surely this man will spend these days in another manner than ever he spent his time before: you that would think so of such a man, it may be some of you, before the Lord this day, are guilty of the same evil, for this is a certain truth, that all the men in the world have been