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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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but because I am pardoned, therefore I come to mourn; so stands the Truth in Divinity in point of Justification and Repentance: you pervert the order, if you think because you mourn, and are a little sorrowful, that therefore you shall be pardoned; the truth is, if your mourning and sorrow be a work of true saving grace: you mourn and sorrow because you are justified; sorrow of true repentance rather flows from pardon, then pardon from it; when God pardons sin, he lets out the graces of his Spirit, and then comes sorrow as a fruit or Evidence of Gods pardoning love and Reconciliation; for though God may give outward favours to a man that is not pardoned; yet God never gives his Spirit to work any saving grace in the heart till he is reconciled: ⟨p. 150⟩'tis a fruit of his pardoning grace and favour, and because he has justified thee, he sends his Spirit to work sorrow and repentance: Many think Justification flows from sorrow; but thou must come to sorrow and repentance another way: know that all true sorrow flows from Justification; all that sorrow before Justification, it is but Legal sorrow, and reveals something that may hinder the soul from Christ, as sin, and the terrors of the Law, and the wrath of God; but it does not interest the soul in Christ; this I affirm as most certain Divinity, that there is no sorrow whereby any soul is interested and planted in Christ; the sorrow that is wrought in them before Justification, in order of nature, may be a means to bring them to God, and make them enquire after Christ, and stir up their hearts to take away those things that do hinder from Christ; but it does not interest the soul in Christ: you do not understand the way of the Gospel, if you think that sorrow interests the soul in Christ; no, that must be by faith laying hold on him for Justification, and then comes sorrow of repentance after; thou mayst see thy self an undone wretch for sin, and lost for ever, and nothing in the world can quiet thee; all this may be by the work of the Law: but then God comes and shows thee his grace in Christ, and enables thee to close with it for Justification, and then comes in Evangelical sorrow, mourning and melting sorrow more than ever before:
but because I am pardoned, therefore I come to mourn; so stands the Truth in Divinity in point of Justification and Repentance: you pervert the order, if you think because you mourn, and are a little sorrowful, that therefore you shall be pardoned; the truth is, if your mourning and sorrow be a work of true saving grace: you mourn and sorrow because you are justified; sorrow of true repentance rather flows from pardon, then pardon from it; when God pardons sin, he lets out the graces of his Spirit, and then comes sorrow as a fruit or Evidence of Gods pardoning love and Reconciliation; for though God may give outward favours to a man that is not pardoned; yet God never gives his Spirit to work any saving grace in the heart till he is reconciled: