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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
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2. Let me further speak to such that sin after the pardoning grace of God, and do not walk answerable to that grace that was let forth in witnessing the pardon of sin; 'tis a thousand to one thou wilt loose thy evidence; 'tis true, it is irrevocable in Gods heart, yet thou mayst carry it so, that by thy loose walking, thou mayst loose the evidence of it in thy own soul, and it may be as sad with thee as if thou wert not at all pardoned; we are to know that when an Evidence is given in, concerning pardon of sin, every renewed act of sin is a blot to that Evidence: A man that having Evidences of Lands, or an Estate, will keep them fair; but if he should suffer them to be blotted, one blot after another, perhaps so blotted as neither he nor any one else is able to read them; it may cost him a great deal of trouble before he get them renewed again; so 'tis with a poor creature that hath got some comfortable Evidence of the pardon of sin, but giving way to temptation, commits a sin, and there he gets a blot; and then, the next temptation, coming possibly to worldly Mindedness, Passion, Unbelief, slightness of Spirit, Vanity, Sensuality, and abuse of the Creatures; by often yielding to these, he gets more and renewed blots; so that if his Evidences be looked into, they will be found so full of blots, that no marvel in a time of temptation they cannot read them; possibly some that are skilful in the way of God, and the nature of the Covenant of grace, may pick out somewhat of the meaning of them; but thou hast fallen so solely from God that thy Evidences are so blotted and blurred, that in thy own apprehension thou canst see nothing, but that thy condition is as dangerous as ever it was and as uncomfortable, thy Evidences are so blotted that thou canst not read them thy self, and so hast no comfort by them, and 'tis to thee as if thou hadst none at all; this is the duty, and would be the comfort of every Christian, that when they have gotten their Evidences, that they would keep them so clear, that they might read them every morning, and run and read them, and not stand ⟨p. 121⟩poring and beating their brains and hearts, and fret themselves, because they cannot find such and such a thing that was to them an Evidence of the pardon of their sins, this is through their neglect;
2. Let me further speak to súch that sin after the pardoning grace of God, and do not walk answerable to that grace that was let forth in witnessing the pardon of sin; 'tis a thousand to one thou wilt loose thy evidence; 'tis true, it is irrevocable in Gods heart, yet thou may'st carry it so, that by thy loose walking, thou may'st loose the evidence of it in thy own soul, and it may be as sad with thee as if thou wer't not at all pardoned; we are to know that when an Evidence is given in, concerning pardon of sin, every renewed act of sin is a blot to that Evidence: A man that having Evidences of Lands, or an Estate, will keep them fair; but if he should suffer them to be blotted, one blot after another, perhaps so blotted as neither he nor any one else is able to read them; it may cost him a great deal of trouble before he get them renew'd again; so 'tis with a poor creature that hath got some comfortable Evidence of the pardon of sin, but giving way to temptation, commits a sin, and there he gets a blot; and then, the next temptation, coming possibly to worldly Mindedness, Passion, Unbelief, slightness of Spirit, Vanity, Sensuality, and abuse of the Creatures; by often yielding to these, he gets more and renewed blots; so that if his Evidences be lookt into, they will be found so full of blots, that no marvel in a time of temptation they cannot read them; possibly some that are skilful in the way of God, and the nature of the Covenant of grace, may pick out somewhat of the meaning of them; but thou hast faln so souly from God that thy Evidences are so blotted and blur'd, that in thy own apprehension thou can'st see nothing, but that thy condition is as dangerous as ever it was and as uncomfortable, thy Evidences are so blotted that thou can'st not read them thy self, and so hast no comfort by them, and 'tis to thee as if thou had'st none at all; this is the duty, and would be the comfort of every Christian, that when they have gotten their Evidences, that they would keep them so clear, that they might read them every morning, and run and read them, and not stand