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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.
and if those that are godly, that have sin pardoned in the Court of heaven, find so hard a matter of it to get it pardoned in their own Consciences; how does it concern thee that perhaps hast thy sin neither pardoned in the Court of Heaven, nor in thy own Conscience, But art in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity, how concerns it thee to look to it? that is a third sort that abuse the mercy of God in having slight thoughts of the pardon of sin.
Fourthly, Those that seek for pardon but are unsensible of the greatness of the work of God in pardoning, they do not put it off, but seek it for the present, but how? with extreme unsensibleness; they do not come before God with brokenness, trouble and contrition of spirit in seeking after pardon of sin; many they repeat of their sins before God, and have a gift of Prayer; it is that which would make a mans heart to tremble, to consider how many have a great gift in Prayer, and will be praying half an hour, and will repeat abundance of their sins, make Catalogues, and tell large stories of their sins, bring in all the aggravations against them for their sins; judge themselves, and speak mighty words against ⟨p. 90⟩themselves for their sins, and yet all this while, God knows with a desperate, dull, dead and senseless heart for their sins; it may be others that join with them, their hearts are broken with their expressions, and yet in the mean time thy Conscience may tell thee, thy heart is desperately hard before God, and not sensible at all of what thou speakest; thou wert putting up Petitions to God, and yet with as dull and senseless a spirit, as if thou wert speaking of a matter of no consequence at all; this is a high degree of taking the blessed Name of God in vain; for we are to know, the Name of God in forgiveness of sin is a most glorious Name, and we had need to take heed how we speak to God in this business, that we take not his Name in vain, for he will not hold him guiltless that takes his Name in vain; we had need to look to the sanctifying of Gods Name in this thing: Many a man will think it of himself, that to swear and blaspheme is a taking of the Name of God in vain; and why is it so? because it is a sin against the 3d Commandment, Thou shalt not take the Name of thy God in vain, &c. for my part I cannot but think that to make large Confessions of sin, and yet with a senseless dead heart, is a high degree of taking the Name of God in vain; (mistake me not, if thy heart be sensible of thy unsensibleness, thou art not of those that take the Name of God in vain; God accepts of this, it is the rational part of the soul that is taken with this, and this is pleasing to him, though thou canst not bring the sensitive part of the soul up to this thing;