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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 17: Of the true Evidences of Forgiveness of Sin.
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Secondly, Besides the Outward Call, there is an Inward Call, and that is it the Apostle speaks of: Many have the Outward Call of the Word to Faith and Repentance, and yet they perish eternally: But those whom God intends to save and hath love to indeed, he comes to them with an Inward Call, and this Inward Call of God is on this wise: God beholds the poor wretched sinner going on in the ways of sin, death, and perdition, and he comes to him by a secret and powerful voice, speaking to his very heart, O Sinner, consider where thou art, What art thou a doing? Whither art thou a going? What is the end of thy way like to be? thou art going from God, from happiness and life, to woeful misery and blackness of darkness, to the infinite gulf of eternal Perdition; O turn, turn, O ⟨p. 165⟩sinner out of these vile abominable dangerous ways, or else thou art undone for ever: Behold, here is the way of life set before thee; behold my Son sent into the world for the Propitiation of thy sin, and to bring thee into the ways of godliness, which is the way to eternal life; O turn sinner into these ways: Now this voice of God calling to the Soul of a man or woman, it comes with power, it hath an over powering strength in it, to prevail upon the heart; it is much like that secret voice mentioned in Isai. 30.21. And thy Ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, this is the way walk in it, when you turn to the right hand, or to the left; 'tis a Promise of Gods mercy unto his People to convert them unto himself; those that were only in an Outward Profession, says God you shall hear a voice behind you, saying, this is the way, turn in unto it; and so 'tis when God calls a sinner from the ways of death and destruction; such a sinner hears a voice behind him; it may be he has come many times to Sermons, and heard a voice many times without him and before him; but never before, a voice within him and behind him, an inward secret voice speaking to the soul, O sinner turn out of thy sinful ways; Why wilt thou die and perish eternally? for God to come thus secretly, and to reason with the soul by a voice behind it; and 'tis not bare reasoning, but a voice that hath a power and efficacy from God going along with it, that carries on this work in the soul, and causes the heart to listen and to yield unto God;
Secondly, Besides the Outward Call, there is an Inward Call, and that is it the Apostle speaks of: Many have the Outward Call of the Word to Faith and Repentance, and yet they perish eternally: But those whom God intends to save and hath love to indeed, he comes to them with an Inward Call, and this Inward Call of God is on this wise: God beholds the poor wretched sinner going on in the ways of sin, death, and perdition, and he comes to him by a secret and powerful voyce, speaking to his very heart, O Sinner, consider where thou art, What art thou a doing? Whither art thou a going? What is the end of thy way like to be? thou art going from God, from happiness and life, to woful misery and blackness of darkness, to the infinite gulf of eternal Perdition; O turn, turn, O