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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.
5. It is the worst time, because all the tag-rag, all the base and v•lest wretches in the world will come in then; And what hast thou no other spirit, but to defer coming in till then? Hast thou no more care of thy soul, no more love to God and his ways, but to put it off till such a time, as all the abominable wretches in the world will come in? that is the seventh way in dishonouring the pardoning grace of God, by seeking it in the worst time that possible can be.
8. The Eighth way of dishonouring the pardoning grace of God, and the most considerable of all, is the seeking and expecting of it any other way, but only through the Mediation of the Son of God; I told you in the opening of the glorious mysteries of pardoning grace, that it must be done by a Mediator: Now, not only gross ignorant people, but many others dishonour the pardoning grace of God, they are not sensible of this; that it is such grace that only comes through the Mediation of the Son of God: We have too low thoughts of the pardoning grace of God, if we do think there is a possibility of attaining it any other way than by the mediation of him, that is God-Man: If we think our crying to God at any time will do it, or our roaring out in anguish of spirit, forty, fifty, or sixty years is enough to do it: or that there is any thing to attain it by, under the mediation of the Son of God, we have too low thoughts of the pardoning grace of God, we give not God that honour that is due unto it. Luther has a notable expression to this purpose, It is a horrible blasphemy if you presume to pacify God by any works, 'tis an excellent speech; so I say, 'tis horrible blasphemy and intolerable to think to have any thing in the least of your own, to presume upon that God will be pacified with it, whereas God cannot be pacified by any other means, then by the infinite price of the Death and Blood of his own Son; one drop of which is more precious, than all the creatures of Heaven and Earth; God will say, Have I revealed such a way of being reconciled with my Creatures, ⟨p. 105⟩and that at such a rate and infinite price as the death of my own Son? Shall his life and blood go to procure pardon (one drop of which is more worth than ten thousand worlds) and when all this is done, shall my creature think to put me off by a poor work of their own prayers, tears, good meaning, or the like; or with the most glorious work that they can perform? for the greatest and most glorious work that they can perform is not near worth so much as one drop of the blood of Christ. And if you have not such high thoughts of Gods Pardoning Mercy, that it must be procured by that which hath more worth in it than all the Creation besides, you do dishonour it, by having such low thoughts of it, when as you think to obtain it by any duty that you can do;