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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.
1. Those that cry, and seem to be very earnest with God in crying to him for pardon, and yet still continue in love to their sins, and abide in the practice of them in an ordinary course and way; I do not speak of those that seek truly for the pardon of their sins, and yet may sometimes be overtaken with them again; but I speak of the common course of People; they come to God and entreat him to forgive them, and yet continue still in them, I speak not of those that are senseless in the acts of Confession of their sins, but of those that cry mightily unto God for pardon, and yet live in the practice of those sins they cry to God for pardon of: as for instance, consider every one of you what sins have been in your course of life; I put this to you, either you have prayed to God to forgive them, or you have not prayed; if you have not prayed, then you are most horrible Atheists; but I thank God, I pray every day: Well, you pray to God for forgiveness of sin, and yet live in it daily: O how do people thus dally with God; pray against sin, and yet commit sin, and fall to it again; pray again, and commit it again, and this is the very way ⟨p. 93⟩that many people take; they draw out the thread of their lives, and spend out their day of Salvation in trifling with God; they pray that God would be merciful to them in forgiving their sin, and yet go on to commit sin; they do not think what a strong engagement against sin Praying is; I beseech you note it, every one of you that pray against any sin, every Prayer thou makest for pardon of sin, is a mighty strong engagement from God to you to take heed of sin afterwards, may be you have not thought of this; you say, you pray every morning, consider what you do; if you have any care of your souls, you will not rest merely in such a form as your Fathers and Mothers have taught you; but if you have any care of your souls, you will consider in Prayer to God, and say, Lord I am guilty of such and such sins, such sins my nature is most prone unto, and such sins I have lately committed; well, I will humble my soul before God in Prayer, and entreat God to forgive me; 'tis not Prayer to mumble over a few words, this is to prate and not to pray:
1. Those that cry, and seem to be very earnest with God in crying to him for pardon, and yet still continue in love to their sins, and abide in the practice of them in an ordinary course and way; I do not speak of those that seek truly for the pardon of their sins, and yet may sometimes be overtaken with them agen; but I speak of the common course of People; they come to God and intreat him to forgive them, and yet continue still in them, I speak not of those that are sensless in the acts of Confession of their sins, but of those that cry mightily unto God for pardon, and yet live in the practice of those sins they cry to God for pardon of: as for instance, consider every one of you what sins have been in your course of life; I put this to you, either you have prayed to God to forgive them, or you have not prayed; if you have not prayed, then you are most horrible Atheists; but I thank God, I pray every day: Well, you pray to God for forgiveness of sin, and yet live in it dayly: O how do people thus dally with God; pray against sin, and yet commit sin, and fall to it again; pray again, and commit it again, and this is the very way