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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.
9. The ninth way of dishonouring the grace of God is, for any one to venture on sin, the rather because they hope they shall be pardoned, that dare to venture on sin on that ground, hoping that God will at last pardon them, I spake before of those that did nothing else but increase their sins in stead of seeking pardon of sin, and of the miserable sad condition of such: But those we now speak of, are not such as are come to this height ⟨p. 108⟩of sinning, to do nothing else but increase their sins; but such men and women who being convinced of sin, and if they were persuaded that God would never pardon that sin, they would find knots enough to stop them from the commission of it: but because they have some hopes that God will pardon, therefore on that very ground they venture on sin; 'tis true, it is an offence, but God is a merciful God, he will forgive though it be an evil: there is more evil and mischief in this than thou canst imagine; What, art thou convinced of sin, and wilt thou venture on sin merely on this ground, because thou hopest that God will pardon thee? I may say unto thee as Peter to Simon Magus, Act. 8.22. Pray O pray to God, that if it be possible, this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee; for this thought of thy heart hath so much malignity in it, and is so great a provocation against God as possible can be imagined, (except the sin against the Holy Ghost,) for any man or women to venture on any sin in hopes of pardon: some will say, What need we be so strict, and trouble our selves so much? God is merciful, and therefore they think upon that ground; they need not be so strict; this is a horrible degree of turning the grace of God into wantonness, Jude 4. the Apostle speaks of such there, that profest they did believe in Christ; mark what he says of them, There are certain men crept in unawares, — ungodly men turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ; 'tis a most dreadful place, if there be any one in the Congregation that have ever had the glorious light of the Gospel revealed to them, that can reason thus? I do such and such things, yet God is merciful; O that God would convince thee of this evil, give me leave to open it unto you, how men creep in; they were Christians, and were come into the Church; but how? they crept in cunningly;