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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.
you think God is a merciful God, and you hope upon your reforming and performing duties of Obedience, that God will be pacified towards you for all that is amiss: Certainly when you have these thoughts of Gods pardoning grace, you make it to be but as common and ordinary pity towards one in misery; but the grace of God is a higher thing than common pity and compassion, and it is a mighty dishonour to God to have no higher thoughts of it, that you think of it but as of common pity and compassion that one creature hath unto another; or if you think it differs from that pity one creature hath to another, it is but a difference in degrees;; only you think it is a little higher in degree: but you must look upon it in another way, and as another kind of pity then one creature bears to another; it is true, Gods pardoning his poor creatures is in pity and compassion, but it is through the death and satisfaction of his own Son; and if you think to procure it any other way than by the mediation of the Son of God, you look upon it but in a natural way, as nature will dictate unto you; for nature will dictate, that the beholding of one crying out in misery will move pity and compassion, and you go no further: But you are to know, the pardoning grace of God, is the most supernatural and mysteriousest thing in all the Book of God; therefore when God works in us, we must act faith upon it in a mystical way, or act faith upon it as a great mystery; and therefore you that ⟨p. 106⟩have been made sensible of sin, it may be you have thought of Gods grace for the pardon and forgiveness of your sins, and for to quiet the trouble of your spirits; Have you done that? there is I suppose many a poor soul may say, I have been often with God when no eye saw me, but only Gods, seeking the pardon of my sin in trouble of spirit; you have done so: but has your eye at that time been fastened on the Son of God, as the great Mediator between God and Man, to intercede to God the Father for the obtaining this mercy, by making satisfaction to infinite Justice: Together with your cries for pardon, have your eyes been upon the Son of God at the right hand of the Father, pleading for man? Have your hearts been taken with the great mysteries of godliness, and wrought upon by the infinite grace of God?
you think God is a merciful God, and you hope upon your reforming and performing duties of Obedience, that God will be pacified towards you for all that is amiss: Certainly when you have these thoughts of Gods pardoning grace, you make it to be but as common and ordinary pity towards one in misery; but the grace of God is a higher thing than common pity and compassion, and it is a mighty dishonour to God to have no higher thoughts of it, that you think of it but as of common pity and compassion that one creature hath unto another; or if you think it differs from that pity one creature hath to another, it is but a difference in degrees;; only you think it is a little higher in degree: but you must look upon it in another way, and as another kind of pity then one creature bears to another; it is true, Gods pardoning his poor creatures is in pity and compassion, but it is through the death and satisfaction of his own Son; and if you think to procure it any other way than by the mediation of the Son of God, you look upon it but in a natural way, as nature will dictate unto you; for nature will dictate, that the beholding of one crying out in misery will move pity and compassion, and you go no further: But you are to know, the pardoning grace of God, is the most supernatural and mysteriousest thing in all the Book of God; therefore when God works in us, we must act faith upon it in a mystical way, or act faith upon it as a great mysterie; and therefore you that