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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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Thirdly, Those whose sins God hath pardoned, he hath translated them into the Kingdom of his Son; the Scriptures express these things divers ways, and they have a diverse consideration in them: Now I ground this note out of Col. 1, 13, 14. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son; mark what follows, In whom we have Redemption through his Blood the forgiveness of sins; forgiveness of sin is the end of Gods translating of us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, in giving Redemption through his Blood, even the forgiveness of sin; so that whosoever God hath given Redemption to through the Blood of Christ, even the forgiveness of sin, that is, forgiveness of sin being the special part of the Redemption we have by the blood of Christ, such an one is translated into the Kingdom of the dear Son of God; What is that you will say?
1. This notes a great change that there must be upon those that are pardoned, because the Scripture expresses it thus, they are translated into another Kingdom, a Kingdom of the Son of God, the dear Son of God; it is dear mercy of God that translates a soul into the Kingdom of his dear Son; it seems naturally we are in another Kingdom, and have another King besides the Son of God, and have another Sovereign; 'tis certain we are so naturally, we are under the power of Satan, and in his Kingdom; but now when God comes to redeem a soul, and grant forgiveness of sin, he translates out of that Kingdom, and such a soul refuses to be a subject to Satan any longer, or a servant to his lust any longer: but now Christ shall be my King, the Son of God by whom I expect Reconciliation, he shall be my King, and his Laws shall rule in my heart, and his Sceptre shall sway in my soul; now no more shall my own thoughts, counsels, opinions, will, and affections rule me, but Jesus Christ shall be set up upon the throne of my soul, and he shall be my King; I before was led (a poor vile ignorant wretch) by the customs of others, and example of others, and what they required of me by their laws in the matters of his worship; but now Christ ⟨p. 172⟩