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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. Though these things we mentioned last may seem to be hard, yet the trial of them is a very safe and wholesome thing, because if you mistake in this, you are undone; you will examine Evidences for your Houses and Lands; do so in the great matters between God and your souls: And for sorrow for sin, I shall make it plain, there may be a great deal of sorrow for sin, and yet sin not pardoned; you know the example of Ahab, 1 King. 21.27, to 29. verses, And it came to pass when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth and went softly; when God did but send the Prophet to tell him of his sin, presently upon the Prophets words he rent his clothes, which was a sign of extreme sorrow in those times, and then he put on Sackcloth: he put off his Princely Robes, his brave Apparel, and put on Sackcloth, and that not for an outward garment, but upon his flesh, and then fasted and lay in Sackcloth, and went softly as a dejected ⟨p. 147⟩man: the pride and stoutness of his heart seemed to be so much abated, that God takes notice of it in the 29. verse, Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me; and because he did so, the judgment was deferred for a while; yet certainly Ahab's sin was not, or ever should be pardoned, though he put on Sackcloth and humbled himself before the Lord: I appeal unto you this morning, Are not many of you hoping for pardon of sin, and yet come far short of Ahab? all you do in your repentance, is to say, God be merciful unto me, I am sorry, Lord forgive me, and there's an end, all's done presently; but Ahab went a great deal further, and yet his sin was not pardoned: Take the example of Esau, you know what the Scripture says of him, He sought the blessing with tears, and yet found no place for repentance; and in being rejected of the blessing, it was a type of his rejection of Heaven; some carry it thus, to prove there may be tears, and yet no true repentance, that is a truth; Esau was very much troubled, and shed many tears, and yet there was no true repentance: but I rather take the meaning of the Text thus; he found no place of repentance in his Father Isaac; his Father Isaac had given the blessing to Jacob, and would not call it back, though he sought it with tears; there was no place for Isaac to recall it any more, though he shed many tears, yet he went without it;