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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.
And you that are spiritual must restore such a one; the word in the Original is put him in joint again; any godly man or member of a Church that falls into sin, is as a bone out of joint, and you that are spiritual must set it again; if once you have a bone out of joint, the longer you let it go, the more painful it is; so if you fall into any sin, the longer you let it go the more unwieldy you will be: No marvel you cannot go about your business handsomely, when you have a bone out of joint; but has God been so merciful as to put you into joint again; you know what Christ said to the man, Thou art made whole, &c. so I say to you, you that have sinned, and God has pardoned you, set you in joint again, Go your way, you are made whole, take heed of sinning again least, a worse thing befall you.
And you that are spiritual must restore such a one; the word in the Original is put him in joynt again; any godly man or member of a Church that falls into sin, is as a bone out of joynt, and you that are spiritual must set it again; if once you have a bone out of joynt, the longer you let it go, the more painful it is; so if you fall into any sin, the longer you let it go the more unweildy you will be: No marvel you cannot go about your business handsomely, when you have a bone out of joynt; but has God been so merciful as to put you into joynt again; you know what Christ said to the man, Thou art made whole, &c. so I say to you, you that have sinned, and God has pardoned you, set you in joynt again, Go your way, you are made whole, take heed of sinning again least, a worse thing befal you.
2. A second sort that dishonour the grace of God, are such that though they fall not into the same gross sins again after pardoning mercy, yet are negligent in the ways of God; loose, slight, v•in, sensual, carnal, dead-hearted in their conversation, and do not answer the grace of God revealed to them, but are more ⟨p. 118⟩drossy in their spirits than before; It may be for the time wherein they were seeking this grace of God, they were strict in their conversation, in their ways conscientious; and in every thing walked close with God, durst not for their lives omit a known duty, attended on the Word with a great deal of patience, their hearts closed with it, and it was as meat and drink unto them; and in their conversation they were very fruitful in the places where they lived: But now having had some comfortable assurance of Gods mercy pardoning them, after this they are grown slight, vain, loose, and dead hearted; this is a very grievous evil where ever it may be charged: It is a very great evil for any to abuse Gods general Bounty, Patience, and Long-sufferance, and the good we receive from God in the use of the creature; but far worse to abuse the grace of God in Christ, manifested in pardoning mercy: I shall show this to be a great evil, and shall labour to convince you of it.