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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
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but is there any thing else you use to make things sure between one another? Yea Lord, Fourthly, we put our Seals to it, an Oath taken may soon pass over,1 but a Seal that abides: says God, I will do that too, I will give you Seals, and there are divers sorts of Seals; there's first the Broad Seal of Heaven: What is that? that is nothing else, but the very Printing of the Image of God on the Soul, that is the Broad Seal of Heaven. And as the Broad Seal of England, hath the Picture or Image of the King stamped upon it, so the Broad Seal of Heaven is nothing else but the Image of God stamped or imprinted on the Soul. 2. There is the Privy Seal of the Holy Spirit of God, which is the persuading and assuring of the soul of its interest it hath in Christ and God the Father. In 2 Tim. 2.19. you have Gods Privy Seal, The Lord knows them that are his, and they having his Privy Seal know themselves to be the Lords, Cant. 6.2. I am my Beloveds, and my Beloved is mine; so Paul, Gal. 2.20. being sealed with this Seal, saith of Christ, He loved me, and gave himself for me; he was persuaded and assured of salvation, 2 Tim. 1.12. Rom. 8.38, 39. This Privy Sealing is like the New Name, Revel. 2.17. Which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. And to this you shall have a third Seal Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, that is, to assure you, that the end of the Sacrament is to Seal up Pardon of sin; God saw that his People would be very solicitous, and therefore added all these ways of assurance to them; when you therefore come to the Sacrament, you should come with a sense upon your souls of the great need you have of the grace of God in pardoning sin, and come to it as to a Sealing-day; you have many fears and doubts; come so as that you may have the grace of pardon sealed to your souls; take heed of coming so as to have your condemnation sealed: for certainly, all Ordinances if they work not for that end that they are appointed, they turn to another and quite contrary; as the Word, if it be not the savour of life, it is the savour of death; and so the Sacraments, if they seal not the pardon of thy sins up unto thee, they seal up the sentence