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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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they would take the pleasure of sin, and when the punishment comes, they would be sorry for it, and repent of it: the ordinary way to put men off from this plea, is to tell them How do you know you shall live, or that your hearts shall not be hardened? but suppose you do live, and that you have a heart to do as you say, yet your repentance may fail you; if your repentance be no other than that which comes for sorrow of sin, because of the punishment, it will fail you; certainly that repentance that must go for current in Heaven is of another nature: possibly I may show afterwards what is true and false sorrow; but for the present I shall show where the mistake lies: Whosoever therefore that builds their believing of the pardon of their sin merely on their sorrow, and such kind of sorrow, they are like a man that would erect a great Building, and ⟨p. 149⟩lay the foundation of it in a quag-mire, or on the sand, as the Scripture speaks, when storms come the building falls; I shall speak hereafter to those that build on the Sand; but these build on a Quagmire, on a few tears, sorrow and trouble of spirit they have upon the apprehension of punishment of sin: this building will fall in time of straights and danger; and this is the reason why people that depend upon sorrow never have peace: for how can I tell the measure of sorrow I am to have before peace be spoken, and then if they feel not sorrow, they are questioning again: it is a dangerous thing to lay the hopes of pardon of sin upon our own sorrows; where or how then shall we lay our hopes? why, upon the sorrows of Jesus Christ, there you shall find the surest ground (there may be some mistake there too, but for the present I shall not stay on that) we must look ten thousand times more at the sorrows of Christ than at our own sorrows; and therefore when your hearts are troubled, and you look for mercy, depend more ten thousand times on the sorrows of Christ than on all your own sorrows; for your sorrows for sin cannot satisfy Gods Justice; and that that must be a ground of hope for the pardon of my sin, must be something that must satisfy the justice of God; for though there be never so much sorrow, yet it will not satisfy Gods justice; and consider further, True sorrow rather follows the work of Justification then precedes it; as thus, I am not therefore pardoned because I mourn;
they would take the pleasure of sin, and when the punishment comes, they would be sorry for it, and repent of it: the ordinary way to put men off from this plea, is to tell them How do you know you shall live, or that your hearts shall not be hardned? but suppose you do live, and that you have a heart to do as you say, yet your repentance may fail you; if your repentance be no other than that which comes for sorrow of sin, because of the punishment, it will fail you; certainly that repentance that must go for current in Heaven is of another nature: possibly I may shew afterwards what is true and false sorrow; but for the present I shall shew where the mistake lies: Whosoever therefore that builds their believing of the pardon of their sin meerly on their sorrow, and such kind of sorrow, they are like a man that would erect a great Building, and