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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.
Further, The way that thou takest is the way to perish, there can be no good in that way, thou mayst pine away in thine iniquity, but for to get any Counsel, help, comfort, or mercy: be assured thou canst not, therefore reason as the Lepers, 2. Kings 7.3. If we sit here we shall certainly dye, if we go to the Camp of the Syrians they can but kill us, let us arise and go: And it was a good going to them, for they met with that, that helped and relieved them; So do you say if I sit down thus, there is no way but I must dye, but however though I should never get any comfort or help, yet it is better venture that way than the other: thou knowest not what thou mayst meet with, may be thou thinkest it humility to ⟨p. 130⟩sit down in this way, but know that most desperate pride may be under it, and stand with such discouragements. We know the most proud spirits may be the most discouraged spirits, as the Devil, the Scripture sets him forth to be as proud as Lucifer, yet none so proud as spirits under such discouragements: there may be much pride in discouragements, therefore take heed least there be any secret pleasing of your selves this way, though you be in some trouble, yet if you feel there is a secret pleasure in that smart that falls upon you, and some kind of contentedness in going your own way, as many men though they meet with abundance of Crosses, yet if they go their own way, it pleases them much; take heed, there may be desperate pride at the bottom of all this.
Further, The way that thou takest is the way to perish, there can be no good in that way, thou mayst pine away in thine iniquity, but for to get any Councel, help, comfort, or mercy: be assur'd thou canst not, therefore reason as the Lepers, 2. Kings 7.3. If we sit here we shall certainly dye, if we go to the Camp of the Syrians they can but kill us, let us arise and go: And it was a good going to them, for they met with that, that helpt and relieved them; So do you say if I sit down thus, there is no way but I must dye, but however though I should never get any comfort or help, yet it is better venture that way than the other: thou knowest not what thou mai'st meet with, may be thou think'st it humility to ⟨p. 130⟩