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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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3. Others say, we trust in the mercy of God, and in this I am to speak to two sorts. First, Those that are most grossly ignorant, that have no other ground to hope for pardon of sin, but because they hear that God is a merciful God: Know thus much, that notwithstanding what you hear of God, that he is merciful, and not willing that men should perish: yet the Scripture reveals clearly to us, that notwithstanding God is gracious and merciful, yet the greatest part of the world perish in their sins; there is nothing more clear then this, that most people in the world do perish; and therefore to say God is merciful, is not enough; you may be sorry for sin, reform, and say, God is merciful, and yet ⟨p. 156⟩perish: if these three were enough, what needed the son of God to come, and take our nature upon him, and be made a curse for Mans sin, lay down his life, and shed his precious blood, why might not these three have been joined together, and so Christ never have come? for though Christ had never come, I might have been sorrowful, and I might have reformed and said God is merciful, though Christ had never come: those that never knew Christ, nor heard of him yet, they may be sorrowful, reform, and say God is merciful. I beseech you consider this note, I can never be pardoned and saved, in such a way, as it might be done, though Christ had never come; I can then never be pardoned and saved by all the means I take for pardon and Salvation, if those things might be done though Christ had never come; and if you have nothing else but them to rest upon, then you can never be saved; put this to your hearts, what have I wrought in my heart, that I might not have had, if Christ had not come into the world; certainly the most things that most people have to rest upon, for pardon and salvation; they might have had though Christ had never come into the world. Further, Thou sayest God is merciful, True, the mercy of God is sweet and a blessed argument, and our souls much delight to open the grace and mercy of God; and I have endeavoured to open to you what is revealed in the Gospel; yet Gods mercy is free, though he delight to glorify his mercy: and he hath thousand thousands of Subjects, to glorify his mercy in, though thou perish eternally. Though thou perish eternally, yet God may be glorious in the blessedness of his mercy:
3. Others say, we trust in the mercy of God, and in this I am to speak to two sorts. First, Those that are most grosly ignorant, that have no other ground to hope for pardon of sin, but because they hear that God is a merciful God: Know thus much, that notwithstanding what you hear of God, that he is merciful, and not willing that men should perish: yet the Scripture reveals clearly to us, that notwithstanding God is gracious and merciful, yet the greatest part of the world perish in their sins; there is nothing more clear then this, that most people in the world do perish; and therefore to say God is merciful, is not enough; you may be sorry for sin, reform, and say, God is merciful, and yet