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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.
Secondly, Thou judgest of God according to thy own thoughts, and this God will take exceeding ill, as they Psal. 50.21. Because I kept silence thou thoughtest I was altogether such a one, as thy self; 'Tis a great evil to measure God by our own thoughts, and there are two ways of dishonouring God by it.
Secondly, Thou judgest of God according to thy own thoughts, and this God will take exceeding ill, as they Psal. 50.21. Because I kept silence thou thoughtest I was altogether such a one, as thy self; 'Tis a great evil to measure God by our own thoughts, and there are two waies of dishonouring God by it.
1. The way of the carnal secure sinner; he measured God by his own thoughts, he thinks God is not so strict to be angry for every fault; and if thou offendest, that if we go and cry him mercy, he will be pleased again. We think it an easy matter to please God, and because God is silent, we think he do's not hate sin as he doth, that's one way of dishonouring God.
1. The way of the carnal secure sinner; he measured God by his own thoughts, he thinks God is not so strickt to be angry for every fault; and if thou offendest, that if we go and cry him mercy, he will be pleased again. We think it an easie matter to please God, and because God is silent, we think he do's not hate sin as he doth, thats one way of dishonouring God.
A Second way is when a man comes to be troubled for sin, and conscience enlightened; then we think slightly of God another way. It may be thou hast a hard heart and wouldst not pardon one that provokes thee again and again, thou wouldst not pass by such and such offences, and thou thinkest God is so too, thou thinkest God to be like thy self, and that he cannot bear with thee in such and such things, because thou canst not bear with others. This is to judge God by our own line, but know, that the thoughts of Gods pardoning grace are as far above ours as the Heavens are above the Earth; and therefore we must not measure God by our own thoughts.