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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.
1. Consider and call to remembrance what the days of old were? How in former times it was with you, when you were seeking the pardoning grace of God? then you thought if ever G•d come in to my soul, and give me any assurance of pardon of sin, How infinitely should my soul be engaged to bless God, and how shall I for ever be bound to give up my self, soul and body; what I am, and what I can do to live to the praise of the grace of God; if God come in to my soul and pardon this sin of mine, the guilt whereof lies so heavy upon my spirit; I appeal unto your own Consciences, Did not you think in your own thoughts, that it was impossible that ever you should come to live as you do? certainly if the thoughts of many people might this day appear, they cannot but say, Time was (when I was seeking after the mercy of God, to pardon my sin that lay upon my Conscience) I thought with my self thus; he is a blessed man) indeed that has assurance of this, and if ever I had peace spoken to my soul, I thought my life would have been such, that (in my apprehension) I thought it was impossible that I should have grown to this dullness, deadness, slightness, and vanity, that now I see I am, then now as Paul said to the Galatians, Where is the blessedness you spake of, time was you said the pardoning ⟨p. 119⟩mercy of God it was a blessed thing; where is that blessedness you spake of, that after you have received it, you should grow wanton, loose, and slight? What, have you not a mightier Argument to draw your hearts to God, after he hath spoke peace, than ever you had before? The apprehension of guilt, danger, and trouble of spirit for sin, that was an Argument to keep you from sin before; but if God have spoken peace, in applying this pardoning grace; Have you not Arguments, of another nature than these, which are far more powerful? Certainly, those that know the grace of God in Christ know that there is no such powerful argument as the grace of God in Christ in pardoning sin, to keep up the heart to God, and to keep from sin as this, no such argument in the world that is like to this; the eyeing of Gods grace is a special thing to quench and keep down lust; whereas those that sin after this mercy, whose lusts and corruptions overcome the power of this pardoning mercy, they are deprived of the best and most special spiritual helps, that can be to keep from sin; Phil. 4.7.