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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.
but I speak it of those that have got a formality in crying and confessing of their sins, and yet are unsensible of them; yea, it may be, glory in this, that they can in the Church thus speak of their sins, and have such expressions before the Lord; take heed of this, if you would show your parts and abilities, let it be in something else, and not to come before the holy God; and before others in a holy duty to vent your parts and abilities there: it is a dangerous thing for any to meddle so in this kind, Heb. 9.22. as he says there, without shedding of blood there is no remission; so I may say without the blood of thy heart, without the bleeding of thy heart there is no remission, or at least a being sensible of thy unsensibleness; if thou canst not mourn then mourn that thou canst not mourn, be sensible of thy unsensibleness, and then ⟨p. 91⟩God may accept of thee; but otherwise without this kind of blood there is no remission; that is to sanctify the Name of God, consider this note, it may be of use many ways, that is, to sanctify the Name of God, when there comes to be in my heart a disposition suitable to the work of God I have to deal withal; suitable to the manifestation of God in that thing I have to deal with God in: if any ask, What is it to sanctify Gods Name, I would answer thus; To sanctify Gods Name in any thing, it is to labour to get an answerable disposition to that thing that I have to deal with God in; when I am to deal with God in any work, according to that work I must have a disposition in my heart suitable to it; as to instance, I sanctify Gods Name in Prayer, when I speak of Gods glorious Attributes and Titles then, when there is an answerable disposition in my heart to those glorious Titles that I speak of; so I sanctify Gods Name when I confess my sin before God the Judge of all the World, in having an answerable disposition in my heart suitable to this Judge; and then I sanctify Gods Name in seeking pardon of sin, when I have an answerable disposition in my heart to the greatness of the work of God in pardoning sin; therefore all of you must be careful, when you entreat God to pardon sin, to entreat him also to sanctify his Name; How is that? entreat God to manifest that glorious work to your souls, and then labour to get your hearts into an answerable disposition suitable to that great work;
but I speak it of those that have got a formality in crying and confessing of their sins, and yet are unsensible of them; yea, it may be, glory in this, that they can in the Church thus speak of their sins, and have such expressions before the Lord; take heed of this, if you would shew your parts and abilities, let it be in something else, and not to come before the holy God; and before others in a holy duty to vent your parts and abilities there: it is a dangerous thing for any to meddle so in this kind,