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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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so that there may be much sorrow, and thou mayst seek the blessing with many tears, and yet God may be so turned against thee that there will be no place for repentance, that is, God will not call in that that is out against thee. And of Judas 'tis said when he saw Christ was condemned, that he repented; 'tis said he did repent, yet Judas was not pardoned; so that you see plainly, there may be repentance, and yet sin never pardoned: Indeed, true repentance hath ever pardon going along with it; but the Scripture speaks of a repentance that may be without pardon; therefore when thou sayest thou repentest, you must not look upon it so, because you repent, therefore your sins are pardoned, as if every repentance was true; for thou mistakest in the work of repentance, thou thinkest this to be repentance to Salvation, for thee to be sorry at the very heart for thy sins; certainly ⟨p. 148⟩thou mayst be sorry at the heart, and yet perish for all that; I make no question but Judas was sorry at his heart, and wished it had never been done, and if it were to do again, he would never do it; there is as much expressed, he repented, and he brought the 30 pieces again; he was not only sorrowful, but made satisfaction; he brought the money back again that he had got in a wicked way: and therefore if you think this to be true repentance, you are mightily mistaken, but wherein is it that we fail? It is not for me now to enter on the Doctrine of true Repentance, I am to speak of it so far as to convince men, that it is not a ground for hope of pardon of sin: Mark it, when 'tis thus with thee, thou repentest because thou seest that sin will bring thee into danger: Now, thou hast had the pleasure or the profit of it, and thou seest now it will bring thee into trouble and danger, thou art sorry that ever thou didst it: certainly, if God would be satisfied with such kind of sorrow, he might have enough of it in Hell; for there is yelling and sorrow, because of the troubles that sin hath brought upon them: to sorrow because of the trouble that our sins bring on us is merely natural, and flows from nature it self, and far from a saving work of repentance; therefore the repentance many hope to have, What is it? when we tell them of their sins, they say, they hope to repent; What do they mean? Why?
so that there may be much sorrow, and thou may'st seek the blessing with many tears, and yet God may be so turn'd against thee that there will be no place for repentance, that is, God will not call in that that is out against thee. And of Judas 'tis said when he saw Christ was condemn'd, that he repented; 'tis said he did repent, yet Judas was not pardoned; so that you see plainly, there may be repentance, and yet sin never pardoned: Indeed, true repentance hath ever pardon going along with it; but the Scripture speaks of a repentance that may be without pardon; therefore when thou say'st thou repentest, you must not look upon it so, because you repent, therefore your sins are pardoned, as if every repentance was true; for thou mistakest in the work of repentance, thou thinkest this to be repentance to Salvation, for thee to be sorry at the very heart for thy sins; certainly