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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 15 › Of the Evil of dishonouring the Pardoning Grace of God.
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Of the Evil of dishonouring the Pardoning Grace of God.
First, There is this evil in it, because it is a sinning against mercy, which God accounts his glory; a man takes it exceeding ill, if he be wronged in his Goods, or good Name, or in any thing he apprehends an excellency in; and (mark it) The greater excellency a man apprehends in any thing, the greater evil he accounts the wrong that is done to him in that thing: As a covetous man, if you wrong him in his Estate, he presently as a mad man cannot bear it, because you wrong him of that which he counts his greatest excellency; so a Scholar, a man of parts will rather you wrong him in any thing than account of him as a Dunce, because he accounts his parts and learning his greatest excellency, therefore he would not be wronged in that: so you that are Mariners, and have skill ⟨p. 134⟩in sailing, and in the Art of Navigation, if one vilify your work, and find fault with you there, 'tis as if one touched your free-hold, you cannot bear it; Why? because you account it your excellency; so it is between us and God, if we wrong God in that which he accounts his excellency, he cannot bear it; Now the pardoning mercy of God is that which God counts his excellency and glory, Exod. 34. when God descended to show Moses his glory, his Pardoning Mercy was one of the great Master-pieces, wherein God accounted his glory to consist, more than in the making of Heaven and Earth: Now for God to be contemned in that wherein his glory consists, must needs be a great dishonour to him; the mercy of God comes from the bowels of his compassions; Now if you strike one on the arm or shoulder, it is not so much as if you strike him on his bowels; when you dishonour the pardoning grace of God, you do as it were spurn at the Bowels of God and Christ, and he accounts it so: certainly you that can hear this, and neglect it, and prize and prefer every base just before it, you do as it were go up and down kicking and spurning at the bowels of God; and that Child that should spurn at his Mothers bowels, is not so much to be blamed as thou art that goest on in sin, after thou hast heard the pardoning grace of God opened to thee, thy going on in sin is a spurning at the very bowels of God.