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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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1. He did not stay till Samuel came, when Samuel had appointed a time to come, he deferred it to the last minute, and Saul was in a great strait, he tarried for him long, and he thought he must not go to war except he offered Sacrifice before, and he ventured to offer it himself, and did not stay out the full time; he staid so long till he thought that Samuel would not come, and then that he did was but to offer Sacrifice to God, and yet God lays this very thing unto his charge as a cause why he would cast him off. 1 Sam. 13.13. Samuel tells him that God had thought to establish the Kingdom for ever unto him, But now he will not; you are gone Saul for this sin: the 2. sin in Scripture on which God lays his casting off upon is this, God sent him against the Amalekites, and bad him destroy all, but he spared the fat of the flock, and the King. Now the sparing of the fat of the flock was done out of a good intention, he professes it was that the People might have of the fattest to offer in Sacrifice to God, a good intention and yet for this God tells him, that he would rend the Kingdom from him, for that thing, 1 Sam. 15.28. True it is, that though Saul was guilty of other sins, yet if you observe the story, you shall find that these were the two sins for which God puts the casting away of Saul upon. And yet David committed murder and adultery, and was not cast off; why? Why if God will show his prerogative, what hath the creature to reason with him for it, if he will damn Saul for his sins that were less, and pardon Davids that were greater, what hast thou to do with that? his mercy is his own: Thou thinkest it may be because thou couldst put a man off with this reason, my sins are small, and therefore I may be forgiven them because they are not so great as others: Grant it may be so, yet know that tis not so with God, he may pardon great sins in others, and yet thou mayest perish eternally for the least sins of all, and therefore take this for a Conclusion; If thou hast no other ground for the pardon of thy sin; but because they are little ones; I pronounce in the name of ⟨p. 142⟩God against thee this day, thy sins are not pardoned; But stand upon the file, and thou shalt externally perish in them, if thou hast no other ground then that, to show for the pardon of them;