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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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Secondly, There are others that mourn, pray and reform, and then have some kind of reliance on God to pardon them, for his mercies sake; and therefore to them I shall say thus much: Know, the mercy of God must be received after Gods own way; he hath appointed the communications of it, and so it must be received; otherwise it can never attain to such an effect as the pardon of thy sin; note this, that all the mercy in God considered, as he is creator of Heaven and Earth, and not let out through the Mediator Christ Jesus God-man it never wrought to the pardon of any one sin, and therefore if you look upon the mercy of God, and do not look to the right way of the conveyance of it, you may most dangerously mistake: The ground and bottom of faith, that ⟨p. 158⟩justifies is not merely to cast ones self on the mercy of God, (for there is none, but in a natural way know that God is a merciful God) but the main ground of Justification, or of justifying faith, is the free grace of God through Jesus Christ; That God is merciful through a Mediator: Otherwise the ground of your faith is but on a mere confused notion of the mercy of God, which will certainly fail you; a heathen may have as much to be the ground of his faith, that the great creator of Heaven and Earth, pities those that are in misery, and I am a poor creature in misery; Isle cry to him, and isle reform my life, and isle rely on him; thus far a heathen may go: but the ground and bottom of faith is not the mercy of God in general, but the mercy of God in and through a Mediator; observe a little further, the ground of justifying faith is not thus, that God for Christs sake will forgive me for what Christ hath done to purchase my pardon, but there is another work of faith in the souls of believers, though the soul apprehend it not; tis not the work of faith in justification, to believe that Christ hath paid so much as my debt comes to; but thus, the work of faith is to bring the soul unto Christ, and to pitch it upon the person of Christ, to be made mine first, and then the righteousness of Christ to be mine: Tis not thus, I believe this is my debt, and there is so much money to pay it; but this is the work of faith, to bring thee to be married to such a person; and so the debt is transacted on him to whom thou art married, and he will discharge the debt, because thou art married to him;
Secondly, There are others that mourne, pray and reform, and then have some kinde of relyance on God to pardon them, for his mercies sake; and therefore to them I shall say thus much: Know, the mercy of God must be received after Gods own way; he hath appointed the communications of it, and so it must be received; otherwise it can never attain to such an effect as the pardon of thy sin; note this, that all the mercy in God considered, as he is creator of Heaven and Earth, and not let out through the Mediator Christ Jesus God-man it never wrought to the pardon of any one sin, and therefore if you looke upon the mercy of God, and do not look to the right way of the conveyance of it, you may most dangerously mistake: The ground and bottom of faith, that