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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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now when this comes into the soul, he will not let such and such sins be there any longer, but says, Get you hence, I will have no more to do with such and such beloved lusts and Idols that I set my heart upon, Get thee hence; and those men that God calls to himself, certainly when they hear this voice behind them, though they now plead for Idolatry and Superstition, and why should not we do as our forefathers did? yet if once they come to hear this secret voice of God, and God show them the way of his Worship in the purity and beauty of it, they will say, get thee hence to those things as vile things, get ye hence, I will have no more to do with ⟨p. 167⟩you; this is the way in the ordinary call of God, and though God sanctify some from the womb, yet afterwards by a mighty work of the Spirit he discovers unto them what the soul is by nature; there is somewhat like this even in those that are sanctified from the womb, though God in an extraordinary way draw the soul out from sin into the ways of life; but generally there are in the ordinary way of Gods working, these three or four voices calling to the soul. 1. Says God to the soul, O soul thou art made for God, and for Eternity. 2. O soul thou art now in the ways of Hell, and of eternal perdition, and must of necessity perish in it. 3. O soul, behold here are the ways of life and salvation revealed unto thee, and set before thee in the Gospel of my Son. And lastly, O soul come in, and thou shalt have favour and acceptation in my Son; these are the four voices in Gods call; I do not say every one hears them plainly and distinctly, yet they do for the substance of them in the ordinary way of the dispensation of Gods grace: Every soul that God justifies they are thus called of God, and 'tis a prevailing call, that brings them in to submit unto it: Again, concerning this call of God, because the Scripture speaks much of it, I shall show a little further; mark it, That soul that once hears the call of God to bring it into the ways of life, that soul will evermore depend upon Gods call in all other things;
now when this comes into the soul, he will not let such and such sins be there any longer, but says, Get you hence, I will have no more to do with such and such beloved lusts and Idols that I set my heart upon, Get thee hence; and those men that God calls to himself, certainly when they hear this voyce behind them, though they now plead for Idolatry and Superstition, and why should not we do as our forefathers did? yet if once they come to hear this secret voyce of God, and God shew them the way of his Worship in the purity and beauty of it, they will say, get thee hence to those things as vile things, get ye hence, I will have no more to do with