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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 bring in the new earth of their own Performances and Duties, and this they build upon, and do not build upon the Rock Christ for the pardon of their sins, and Justification of their souls before God, and here they fail, and this is their undoing, their mistake in this; and yet it is most sure, that every one of us would mistake in this; if God did not reveal in the Gospel another way to receive Pardon and Justification in his Son, we should certainly all of us rest here, and go no further; no man or woman in the world, that never heard the Gospel went further than this, and so far one may go without the Gospel; we may dig deep, cast out the old rubbish, and bring in new earth; this we may do, and not hear of the Gospel: And therefore we have a great deal of cause to bless God that we may hear the mysteries of the Gospel opened unto us; for certainly we should else go no ⟨p. 153⟩further, and if we go no further, we should certainly perish; and therefore if we go but thus far, it is not building on the Rock Christ; hence the ground and bottom of faith for Justification cannot be in Reformation, or in any thing in the creature, it must be in something above and without us, and yet by faith, (wrought in us) though without us; I mean the Rock Christ, and the Foundation that is laid for the forgiveness of our sin in Christ, that must be the Foundation of our faith, and not in what we do our selves: For
1. Know, that all Reformation in the world will not satisfy for the evil that you have done for the time past; this I would convince you of, and be you willing to hear it, it may be of great use unto you; when we preach Christ and free grace, it is to bring you to Christ; our preaching down of works is not to keep you from doing of them, but from resting in them: that which I aim at, is to bring you into an enquiring frame of spirit, a restless condition, that so we may bring you to that which is the true rest; and we shall be as glad to bring you into the true rest, as now to bring you into restlessness: Know, all Reformations for time to come, will not satisfy God for time past, it will not: amongst men, if you have run into arrearages with your Landlord for Rent, and you bring him a quarters Rent when there's three or four quarters behind, or may be two or three years, if you should think to pay the Rent of two or three years with bringing the last quarter, it would be accounted a foolish conceit; so would it be, if with God you should think the duties you do at present, should satisfy for all the arrearages you have run into for time past: you do not understand Gods way, if you think that God will be satisfied for all that is past by what you do at the present: Suppose what you do now were perfect, and for all time to come you never committed one sin against God any more, yet all this would not satisfy for time past, this looks but at time to come, and does not at all take off any thing for the time past: Besides, you may see matter enough in your best Reformations for God to condemn you, not only for your former sins, but sins in your reforming; but if there were no sin in that, that would be no satisfaction for that which