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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
Gospel Remission. › Chapter 1: The Text Opened, and the Main Doctrine Propounded.
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. I. The Text Opened, and the Main Doctrine Propounded.
I Have, as you may remember, in many Sermons endeavoured to show unto you the malignity and dreadful evil that there is in Sin; And what more seasonable and suitable Argument can we now treat of, than the blessedness of Pardon of Sin? How sweet and acceptable will this be to such fou•s, that by the former argument have been made apprehensive of the dreadful evil of it? How readily will they say, with the Prophet, How beautiful are the feet of those that bring (such) good tidings? Wherefore, me thinks, while I am reading this Text, I should be like a man at an Echo, that hears the words thereof resounded back again, by every broken hearted sinner in this Congregation, O, blessed, blessed is the man indeed whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sin is covered.
I Have, as you may remember, in many Sermons endeavoured to shew unto you the malignity and dreadful evil that there is in Sin; And what more seasonable and suitable Argument can we now treat of, than the blessedness of Pardon of Sin? How sweet and acceptable will this be to such fou•s, that by the former argument have been made apprehensive of the dreadful evil of it? How readily will they say, with the Prophet, How beautiful are the feet of those that bring (such) good tidings? Wherefore, me thinks, while I am reading this Text, I should be like a man at an Eccho, that hears the words thereof resounded back again, by every broken hearted sinner in this Congregation, O, blessed, blessed is the man indeed whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sin is covered.
A word spoken in season (says Solomon) is like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver; and considering,1