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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.
First, Know it is very low thoughts thou hast of the pardoning mercy of God, and what Christ hath purchased, and what God hath intended from everlasting, in the Covenant of grace, to those souls for whom he intends good; and though for his intentions he keeps them to himself (and would not have thee meddle with that) till he manifest them in the work of grace, yet in the mean time having revealed no further, but that thou mayest have it as well as any other, he expects from thee that thou shouldst venture thy self upon his grace through his Son Jesus Christ, and though thou sayest thou art vile, unworthy, and after the use of means, that thou art unprofitable, vain, full of wandering thoughts and deadness, and therefore thou canst not expect grace; know that thou hast but mean thoughts of the grace of God, that settest such ⟨p. 127⟩things as these against it, these are poor low unworthy things to set against the grace of God, and they do lower the grace of God too much; that set such things as these against it. A Scholar would think it a dishonour to him, for one to come to reason with him, and bring nothing but poor low weak objections that are not worth the answering, he would think it a disgrace to him; certainly it is a dishonour to the grace of God, to set such things as these against it, thou lookest upon it in a natural way, and dost not consider, it is the great design of God above all things in the World; to magnify his grace in pardoning of sin; certainly were this understood, these things would be counted too low and unworthy to be set against such a design; when it is the greatest, God hath to magnify his name in.
First, Know it is very low thoughts thou hast of the pardoning mercy of God, and what Christ hath purchased, and what God hath intended from everlasting, in the Covenant of grace, to those souls for whom he intends good; and though for his intentions he keeps them to himself (and would not have thee meddle with that) till he manifest them in the work of grace, yet in the mean time having revealed no further, but that thou maist have it as well as any other, he expects from thee that thou shouldst venture thy self upon his grace through his Son Jesus Christ, and though thou saist thou art vile, unworthy, and after the use of means, that thou art unprofitable, vain, full of wandring thoughts and deadness, and therefore thou canst not expect grace; know that thou hast but mean thoughts of the grace of God, that sett'st such ⟨p. 127⟩