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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.
CHAP. XV. Of the Dishonour done to the Grace of God by not resting on it. 2. Of the Evil of it.
There is one sort more that are great dishonourers of the pardoning grace of God, and they are those that think they honour him, and yet dishonour him exceedingly, such as being apprehensive of the greatness of their sins, the vileness of them and their own misery, by reason whereof lie down in a sullen desperate discouraging mood, under the wait and burden of them, and are ready to turn against themselves, saying; certainly, my condition is such, as I must expect no other but to lie for ever under the burden of my sins, and bear for ever the punishment of them; I have heard much indeed of the riches of the pardoning grace of God; but for my part, my condition is such, that little expectation I have of being made partaker of it; certainly this kind of sullen discouragement, in lying under our sins, is a mighty aggravation of our sin, and exceedingly dishonourable to the pardoning grace of God; many that are thus, let them hear never so much opened of the riches of the Gospel, and the infiniteness of the grace of God; all is nothing to them, it raises them not from the sullenness of their hearts, and the discouragement of spirit that hangs upon them; they are like to those in Exod. 6.9. that Moses spake unto, but they hearkened not for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage; God sent Moses to show them the grace (of God, to deliver them from their bondage; but says the Text, they hearkened not to Moses, only for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage; so many People when God comes to awaken their Consciences, there is so much anguish in the sense of their sin, that they hearken not to what is said; let them hear never so much in private or in public, they are just where they were, the same complaints, sullenness and objections as before: you may answer all their objections ⟨p. 126⟩against the grace of God, that they know not what to say, but go away for half an hour, and they will have the same objections as if never any thing had been said unto them, certainly there is more evil in this, then you are aware of, this limiting and determining of Gods grace: tis true, there is reason to judge your selves unworthy, and that God may deny you, but that God will deny you is another thing; there is a great deal of difference in these: