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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.
2. It is the worst time, because you come to seek after pardoning grace when it is the time of Gods wrath, Prov. 11.4. the time of affliction, and trouble, sickness, and death, is called the day of wrath; Riches avail not in the day of Gods wrath; Riches avail for comfort at present, but in the day of wrath they will not: God hath his day of affliction, and his day of wrath, he hath his time to come to visit men for their sins: Now then, for people to come to seek to have the pardon of their sins when Gods time is to visit for sin, that must needs be the worst time that possible can be, I reason thus, and consider of it; if God does deny his mercy in the day of mercy, is it likely, that he will grant mercy in the day of wrath? while you are alive, and have liberty, health and opportunity to come to hear the Doctrine of ⟨p. 101⟩the Justification of a sinner, and forgiveness of sin opened, you are to know it is the day of Gods grace; Now is the acceptable time, now is the day of Salvation and of grace; when God gives liberty and opportunity, thus to have the mysteries of the Gospel opened unto you, this is the day of Gods grace: Now if God deny you grace in this day of mercy, that you are not so much as enlightened, your souls melted and your hearts stirred; Do you think that now you are upon your sick-beds or death-beds, which is a day of wrath unto you? for so it is to those that have not their sins pardoned before, it is a day of wrath, and Gods time of visiting for sin; Is it likely that God will now show thee mercy? I beseech you consider, the usual way of Gods working on men is according to his Ordinance: Now the ordinary way of Gods conveying grace is by the Ministry of the Word; Did God ever appoint any other way to convey Christ, and grace to thy Soul? give me a Text for it; Where do you find a Text in Scripture of any other way as an Ordinance appointed by God, for the conveying of his pardoning grace in Christ to any Soul? No, it is in the Ministry of the Gospel, and by faith, that lays hold of the pardoning grace of God, by coming to hear the Word preached; Now if God come not in that time to work upon thee, and to bestow mercy in his own appointed way, it is not likely he will come any other way: I remember in a Treatise of Mr.
2. It is the worst time, because you come to seek after pardoning grace when it is the time of Gods wrath,