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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.
never to presume upon acting of such horrible wickedness, to sin because of Gods pardoning grace, for there is so much evil in this, to presume on sin because God is willing to forgive sin, that those that understand the glory of Gods grace, their hearts cannot but ⟨p. 111⟩stand amazed and rise with indignation against it, Rom. 6.1. What shall we say then, Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — some there were that did abuse the grace of God to sin; How does the Apostle rise with indignation against that abominable wickedness? he does not grant it, but reject it with a horrible indignation, God forbid, What? to sin that grace may abound, God forbid: What? to make use of the grace of God to further sin; Shall we stand to answer these men, in the horrible reasoning of their hearts? No, they are to be cast of with detestation and rejection, with a God forbid, that there should be any of such vile and wicked hearts thus to abuse the pardoning grace of God: Suppose you forgive one servant a fault, and another servant should say; well, my Master hath forgiven him, I will do so too; upon that ground, if thou commit the same offence, he will not forgive thee, because thou offendest presumptuously, which is a most horrid thing. Let me a little further reason the case:
1. It is an argument of an abominable heart, that hath no way to keep it from sin, but only guilt, and fear of wrath and Hell; Thou makest not the grace of God an argument to keep thee from sin, nor the evil of sin in it self; which is a great dishonour and wrong to God; there is more evil in sin it self, setting a side the consideration of the guilt and punishment of it, there is ten thousand times more evil in sin it self, than all the punishment in Hell will countervail; and thou hast no way to keep thee from sin, but only the guilt and punishment; it is an argument of a base wicked heart.