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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 now it comes in another way from the Spirit of God melting the soul, because it hath sinned against Jesus Christ, who hath so graciously appeared to it in his pardoning mercy to the soul; so that now you sorrow because you are pardoned, for it comes as a fruit of faith laying hold of the pardoning grace of God; and then there is no such argument in the world to melt the heart with sorrow, as when faith tells the soul that sin is pardoned; and though thy sorrow was little before, and now is greater, thou needest not be troubled, if God make thy humiliations greater for sin after the knowledge of thy pardon; for the revelation of Gods grace in the pardon of thy sin, is the most excellent means to humble the soul in the world: the sorrows of Gods Children after pardon, as they work on their own hearts so on Gods ⟨p. 151⟩heart too; God is mightily taken with it: when once thy sins are pardoned, then God makes thy heart melt to him as his does to thee: but the sorrow of one that is an Enemy to God does not soften Gods heart; there is a great deal of difference between the sorrow of Gods Children, and the sorrow of others; they make sorrow the ground of pardon, this God accepts not: 'tis true, you may sorrow for sin, because it may be a means to bring you to Christ; but that that justifies the soul is Union with Christ by Faith, and all that sorrow that works Repentance to Salvation flows, from Gods grace in Christ, having justified you. Justification is the first thing that estates thee in blessedness; sorrow does not first state thee in a blessed condition, but is merely a fruit of that blessedness thou art stated in: certainly these things are the Truths of God; so that when you look for blessedness any other way, you look for it merely in a natural way, or as a Heathen may do; a Heathen knows he ought not to offend God, and he knows he had need to have mercy from God, and that he ought to be sorrowful for his sins; I might give you many examples for it, but I must hasten: those then that seek after pardon of sin this way, do but seek for it merely in a natural way.
but now it comes in another way from the Spirit of God melting the soul, because it hath sinned against Jesus Christ, who hath so graciously appeared to it in his pardoning mercy to the soul; so that now you sorrow because you are pardoned, for it comes as a fruit of faith laying hold of the pardoning grace of God; and then there is no such argument in the world to melt the heart with sorrow, as when faith tells the soul that sin is pardoned; and though thy sorrow was little before, and now is greater, thou need'st not be troubled, if God make thy humiliations greater for sin after the knowledg of thy pardon; for the revelation of Gods grace in the pardon of thy sin, is the most excellent means to humble the soul in the world: the sorrows of Gods Children after pardon, as they work on their own hearts so on Gods