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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.
I remember some ancient Divines, Origen and Tertullian upon those words in Heb. 6. For it is impossible for those that were once enlightened, — if they shall fall away to renew them by repentance; he applies it to the sin of uncleanness; and says he, a second repentance is not promised in the Name of Christ to Adulterers and Fornicators; thus I may boldly say, we do not find any certain express example in all the Book of God, of any Child of God that did fall into the same gross outward sins after an actual repentance, and making up his peace with God for sin; we find no express Scripture: I do not say, we find no example of the Children of God that have not committed the same sin again, as Peter and Lot, but we find no example of any gross sin that they have fallen into: mark it, after their repentance and reconciliation; what was done amiss, was done before they came to have it laid home unto their Consciences, and applied unto their hearts for the humbling of their souls in making their peace with God: True, David committed Adultery, but never the second time, after he had his bones broken, he fell not again: and so Peter, after he went out and wept bitterly, he never denied his Master again; and so Abraham equivocated, but we read not, that after ⟨p. 117⟩any actual renewal of faith and repentance, that he committed that sin again: a wound while it is open, and not fully closed, it may bleed again; but when it is fully closed, to bleed again is dangerous; and so any of the people of God, after the actual renewal of their faith and repentance, you cannot give me an example that any of them have fallen into the same sin again; I do not absolutely deny it, but I say it is a dangerous thing, God hath not left an example; he hath left examples that his Children have fallen, but not after they have renewed their faith and repentance, that they have fallen into the same sins again; I speak not of inward thoughts, I know that they after repentance will return again; but for any outward gross actual sin after the renewal of faith and repentance, they have not returned again to commit the same sin: when once a joint is out, or a leg broke and set, usually that joint or bone is stronger than before; and so I might show you after they have sinned, and been set again, they have been stronger than before: a Child of God falling into sin is just like the breaking of a bone, Gal. 6.1.