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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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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, 1 Sam. 14, 15. Chapters you may read Saul had a great deal of success in his way immediately after God had cast ⟨p. 146⟩him off; so though God have cast off a man or a woman, yet that man or woman may have much success in their way; you that are Mariners, you cannot draw an argument, that because you have had a good Voyage, and have past such dangers, (though you have committed many sins,) that God is at peace with you, and that all your faults are past over; no, you may have many good successes in in your Voyages, and yet perish at length for the sins you have committed in your Voyages; and so you may have good success, as Saul had good success in war, and yet was cast off for all that.
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, 1 Sam. 14, 15. Chapters you may read Saul had a great deal of success in his way immediately after God had cast ⟨p. 146⟩