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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, The thing I would have you to do, you that are under the checkings of Conscience for sin, and full of doubts that God will not pardon, and you cannot be persuaded your sins are pardonable. Labour to set the greatness of the pardoning grace of God in the fullness of it, to the utmost you can, before the eye of your souls, That it may be before you; though you cannot reach to it, yet set it before you; you do not know what an efficacy the pardoning grace of God hath, by being presented before your souls, and kept there; no marvel you find not the power of it, when as you set it not before your eyes, the efficacy of Gods grace lies much in presenting it before your souls. The Brazen Serpent, if they looked not to it, it would never heal; So though the pardoning grace of God, be in books and Sermons; yet unless it be before your eyes, and you fix and fasten the eye of your souls upon it; it will never heal ⟨p. 132⟩you: therefore keep it before your eyes, Psal. 5.3. There is an excellent expression; In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. I suppose many of you in the morning will not neglect prayer to God; but mark the expression, I will direct my Prayer; Tis not I will say my prayers, but direct my prayer, there's a great emphasis in it. I will level my Prayer aright, and dart up my soul aright to Heaven, and observe the way that God would have me; and so direct my heart in prayer to him. It may be some of you go thus far, not to content your selves with a dead hearted sluggish Prayer: But what do you look to all the day after? what shall wandering and discouraging thoughts bring you to look down all the day? Would you look up to your morning Prayers, and what you prayed for, there would come a great deal of efficacy upon your souls.
Secondly, The thing I would have you to do, you that are under the checkings of Conscience for sin, and full of doubts that God will not pardon, and you cannot be perswaded your sins are pardonable. Labour to set the greatness of the pardoning grace of God in the fulness of it, to the utmost you can, before the eye of your souls, That it may be before you; though you cannot reach to it, yet set it before you; you do not know what an efficacy the pardoning grace of God hath, by being presented before your souls, and kept there; no marvel you find not the power of it, when as you set it not before your eyes, the efficacy of Gods grace lyes much in presenting it before your souls. The Brasen Serpent, if they lookt not to it, it would never heal; So though the pardoning grace of God, be in books and Sermons; yet unless it be before your eyes, and you fix and fasten the eye of your souls upon it; it will never heal