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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.
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.
as in the natural body, many young men though they feel no distempers in their bodies for the present, and so care not for their diet, nor how to avoid Surfeits: yet after they grow old, then they feel their distempers in their joints and bones, which is no other than their drunkenness and intemperance when they were young; so 'tis in regard of the soul, many in their younger years do greatly follow after wickedness, and because they hear not of it, they go away and never are troubled; but afterwards in their old age, God comes upon them for the sins of their youth: Joab when he was young committed sin, but when his hoary head was on him, God then came to him in wrath for it; and therefore think not all thy sins are pardoned, because 'tis a great while ago since they were committed; but rather reckon up thy former sins and bewail them, and do not rest on this ground, because 'tis long since they were committed, 'tis not to be built upon, you must look for other grounds, or else you are undone for ever, for this will certainly fail you.
as in the natural body, many young men though they feel no distempers in their bodies for the present, and so care not for their diet, nor how to avoid Surfits: yet after they grow old, then they feel their distempers in their joynts and bones, which is no other than their drunkenness and intemperance when they were young; so 'tis in regard of the soul, many in their younger years do greatly follow after wickedness, and because they hear not of it, they go away and never are troubled; but afterwards in their old age, God comes upon them for the sins of their youth: Joab when he was young committed sin, but when his hoary head was on him, God then came to him in wrath for it; and therefore think not all thy sins are pardoned, because 'tis a great while ago since they were committed; but rather reckon up thy former sins and bewail them, and do not rest on this ground, because 'tis long since they were committed, 'tis not to be built upon, you must look for other grounds, or else you are undone for ever, for this will certainly fail you.
Fourthly, Others reason that God has pardoned their sins, not only because they have been committed a great while ago; but they have had prosperity, it hath been well with them, and God has done them good; and certainly if God had not pardoned their sins, God would never have let them thrive; I shall speak but little to this, for these reasonings are very vain, (there are others I shall more insist upon; know this, thou makest it an argument of Gods pardoning mercy, it may rather be an argument of Gods eternal curse, for God to suffer a man to prosper much after great sins committed, it is a sign that God hath given that man over to hardness of heart, which is the most dreadful curse in the world; after God had rejected Saul,