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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Second Evidence is this, Whomsoever God pardons he receives into Covenant with himself; all pardoned sinners are Covenanters with God: God pardons no soul but such an one as he brings into the Bond of the Covenant with himself, that is the way of the conveyance of the grace of God for the pardon of sin, to bring the soul into the Bonds of the Covenant; the Scripture is evident in this, that forgiveness of sin is made a special fruit of the New Covenant, that is clear enough, Jer. 31.33. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel, &c. what is the special end of that Covenant, I will forgive their Iniquities, and remember their sins no more; But how does that come in? it comes in by way of Covenant, I will make a New Covenant; I will first receive them into Covenant, and then they shall have the fruit of this New Covenant, that their sins shall be forgiven, and their iniquities remembered no more: The New Covenant is a mystery to most people, and yet it is a certain truth, the pardon of thy sin, and thy eternal good depends upon it; thou art one that God has brought into Covenant with himself, if thou beest or ever shalt be pardoned, as God will manifest to thy soul, that he hath through his Son tied and bound himself to thee to be thy God, that whereas before thou wert departed from him, and an enemy to him, yet now he is pleased to call thee to enter into a second Covenant after thou hadst broken the first, and wert cast off by reason of that breach, God is contented to enter into a second Covenant with thee, to be thy God in and through his Son; thou art to come in and join in this Covenant; for to a full Covenant there must be assent on both sides, there must be a mutual engagement of either ⟨p. 170⟩parties; when God reveals this to thy soul, that though thou be by nature an Enemy to me, and hast broken the first Covenant that I made with the Children of men, and art cast off, yet be it known unto thee O thou wretched soul, I am content to enter into another Covenant with thee;
Second Evidence is this, Whomsoever God pardons he receives into Covenant with himself; all pardoned sinners are Covenanters with God: God pardons no soul but such an one as he brings into the Bond of the Covenant with himself, that is the way of the conveyance of the grace of God for the pardon of sin, to bring the soul into the Bonds of the Covenant; the Scripture is evident in this, that forgiveness of sin is made a special fruit of the New Covenant, that is clear enough,