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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.
Again, Know that thy reasonings are quite contrary to the Scriptures, for thou reasonest, that pardoning mercy will not be thine, because thy sins are so great, Psal. 25.11. David cries to God to pardon his iniquities for they are great, he makes the greatness of his sins, an argument to drive him too God, not from God, and this is Gods own argument. Gen. 8.21. I will not again curse the Ground any more for mans sake; why? ⟨p. 129⟩for the imaginations of Mans heart are evil from his youth; one would have thought it should have been thus, the imaginations of mans heart are evil, and therefore I will do nothing else but curse the ground. No says God, I will not, because the imaginations of mans heart are evil from his youth; as if he should say, if I should never leave cursing till man leave sinning, I should always be cursing, so says God, If I should never pardon sin till mans sins are less, I should never pardon at all. So in Hosea 2.13, 14. You have God reasoning there like to this here; She went after her lovers, and forgot me, says God, 14.v. Therefore will I allure her, and bring her into the Wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. For she had forgotten me, and went after her lovers; see how the Scripture makes that an argument of Gods mercy. Take another Text in Isaiah the 57.17. For the iniquity of his covetousness, I was wroth and smote him, I hid me and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. Mark what follows; I have seen his ways and will heal him, and will restore comfort to him and to his mourners, he went on frowardly in the perverseness of his Spirit says God, I have seen his ways and will heal him: thus God expresses himself to the end of the Chap. to encourage the hearts of those that are sensible of their sins, and would be sensible of the evil of sin, and account it a great misery that they cannot be sensible of it, the Lord would encourage them, therefore the greatness of sin is no discouragement at all.
Again, Know that thy reasonings are quite contrary to the Scriptures, for thou reasonest, that pardoning mercy will not be thine, because thy sins are so great,