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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 16: Of the several Mistakes of Men about the Pardon of their Sins.
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First, Is this many, think that God has pardoned their sin, because it is but little they have been guilty of, and for that they think there is a pardon in course; were I guilty of such horrible wickedness, and notorious sins, as many others are; then I think it would go hard with me; I should be afraid, things between God and me were very grievous, but the sins I have been guilty of, are no such great sins; I hope God will pass them by: God forbid I should think he were so strict as not to pass by such small sins as those that I have been guilty of. For answer to this
First, Is this many, think that God has pardoned their sin, because it is but little they have been guilty of, and for that they think there is a pardon in course; were I guilty of such horrible wickedness, and notorious sins, as many others are; then I think it would go hard with me; I should be affraid, things between God and me were very grievous, but the sins I have been guilty of, are no such great sins; I hope God will pass them by: God forbid I should think he were so strickt as not to pass by such small sins as those that I have been guilty of. For answer to this
11 Know thou dost not understand, what the evil and malignity of sin means; If thou thinkest the least sin does not make such a breach between God and thee, as all created power in Heaven and Earth, can never make up again: if you do not believe that all those Sermons preached unto you about the evil of sin, are lost unto you. But know, as a little Penknife may stab you to death; as truly as a gash of the greatest Sword, and a little shot out of a Pistol may kill you as well as a Canon bullet; So a little sin may prove your eternal ruin as well as a great one: and therefore that is no argument that God hath past by your sins, because they are little ones; and for that consider this one thing I am further speaking of:
11 Know thou dost not understand, what the evil and malignity of sin means; If thou thinkst the least sin does not make such a breach between God and thee, as all created power in Heaven and Earth, can never make up again: if you do not beleive that all those Sermons preacht unto you about the evil of sin, are lost unto you. But know, as a little Penknife may stabb you to death; as truly as a gash of the greatest Sword, and a little shot out of a Pistol may kill you as well as a Canon bullet; So a little sin may prove your eternal ruine as well as a great one: and therefore that is no argument that God hath past by your sins, because they are little ones; and for that consider this one thing I am further speaking of: