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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.
4. You that think, you may take liberty to sin because God is gracious, and venture on it, because you conceit that God will never punish; think of this, the example of the damned in Hell, they are flying in the face of God because they know that God will never pardon; and thou sinnest because thou hopest God will pardon; which is the worst of the two: the Devils and the damned are in such a condition, as that they know that God will never pardon them; and therefore they always curse God, because they know he will not pardon: but God offers pardon, and tenders grace to you, holds forth Jesus Christ ⟨p. 114⟩to you, and his blood and sufferings for the pardoning of you, and you blaspheme because you think he will pardon; of the two methinks you should judge the second sort worst; you blaspheme because you hope God will pardon, and the other blaspheme God because they know he will not pardon; 'Tis something worse to take liberty to sin, because you hope God will pardon, than they that sin because they are out of all h•p•s of pardon. Thou that takest liberty on this ground to blaspheme the Name of God; What thinkest thou will become of thee another day? now thou dost blaspheme, because thou hopest that God will pardon thee; ere long thou mayest come to that condition to blaspheme God eternally, because, he will not pardon thee: As I make no question, but many Swearers, Drunkards, unclean persons and the like, have gone on in sin on this ground, because they hoped that God would pardon them; are now gone to their own place, and blaspheme because they find that God will never pardon: so that thou that blasphemest now, it may be thou shalt blaspheme eternally, but it will be otherwise, thou dost it now on hopes that God will pardon; thou shalt there do it, because thou shalt have no hopes that he will ever pardon.
4. You that think, you may take liberty to sin because God is gracious, and venture on it, because you conceit that God will never punish; think of this, the example of the damned in Hell, they are flying in the face of God because they know that God will never pardon; and thou sinnest because thou hopest God will pardon; which is the worst of the two: the Devils and the damned are in such a condition, as that they know that God will never pardon them; and therefore they always curse God, because they know he will not pardon: but God offers pardon, and tenders grace to you, holds forth Jesus Christ