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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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there is a second Covenant for life and salvation that I have made with poor man through my Son, and I require that thou shouldst come in, and give up thy self in an everlasting Covenant to make me to be thy God, and to close with me and my Son in whatsoever I call thee to, in whatsoever thou hast or canst do to give up thy self to the power of me and my Son; this thou must engage and tie thy self unto, in the strongest Bonds that can be; this is the nature of the Covenant: we know there were two Covenants, and all the good of mankind in the first Covenant depended on this, his closing with the terms of it: Now the terms of the first Covenant was, Do this and live; but that is broken, and we have lost our ability: Now the second Covenant is, Believe and live; and the soul that God pardons, he brings into the Bond of the second Covenant; it is brought to come and give it self up to the Lord, and to be content to bind it self with all bonds unto God, that he and he only shall be my God, as I desire him to be mine, and his grace and mercy to be mine; so all that I have or can do, shall be his; I surrender up my self, and engage my soul to be his for ever, my Estate, Abilities, whatever I have, or can do, shall be his: Now put this to your own souls, you hope your sins are pardoned: But hath God brought you into the Bonds of the Covenant? Hath God engaged himself to you by his Word, to be your God? and on the other side, Are your hearts engaged to him by the strongest Bonds that can be; and if there be any other Bonds that are stronger to tie your souls to God; Can your souls say, the Lord knows I am content and willing to be engaged; and that you will account it your happiness to be tied in the strongest Bonds that can be? if it be so with thee? Now peace be to thy soul, thy sins are pardoned: as on the one side, God hath made a Covenant with thee, so on the other side he hath brought thee to be in Covenant with ⟨p. 171⟩him; then be of good comfort, thy sins are pardoned.
there is a second Covenant for life and salvation that I have made with poor man through my Son, and I require that thou should'st come in, and give up thy self in an everlasting Covenant to make me to be thy God, and to close with me and my Son in whatsoever I call thee to, in whatsoever thou hast or can'st do to give up thy self to the power of me and my Son; this thou must ingage and tye thy self unto, in the strongest Bonds that can be; this is the nature of the Covenant: we know there were two Covenants, and all the good of mankind in the first Covenant depended on this, his closing with the tearms of it: Now the tearms of the first Covenant was, Do this and live; but that is broken, and we have lost our ability: Now the second Covenant is, Believe and live; and the soul that God pardons, he brings into the Bond of the second Covenant; it is brought to come and give it self up to the Lord, and to be content to bind it self with all bonds unto God, that he and he only shall be my God, as I desire him to be mine, and his grace and mercy to be mine; so all that I have or can do, shall be his; I surrender up my self, and ingage my soul to be his for ever, my Estate, Abilities, whatever I have, or can do, shall be his: Now put this to your own souls, you hope your sins are pardoned: But hath God brought you into the Bonds of the Covenant? Hath God ingaged himself to you by his Word, to be your God? and on the other side, Are your hearts ingaged to him by the strongest Bonds that can be; and if there be any other Bonds that are stronger to tye your souls to God; Can your souls say, the Lord knows I am content and willing to be ingaged; and that you will account it your happiness to be tyed in the strongest Bonds that can be? if it be so with thee? Now peace be to thy soul, thy sins are pardoned: as on the one side, God hath made a Covenant with thee, so on the other side he hath brought thee to be in Covenant with