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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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And do you look to him for the law of your thoughts, words and actions, and walk before him as your Sovereign Lord, depending on him to know his will continually, and fear and honour him as a King: If the Kingdom of Christ be in you, that is, if the Gospel have an effectual work upon you; for the Gospel in the power of it is ordinarily expressed by the Kingdom of Heaven; when the Word comes to any place, the Kingdom of Heaven is said to come; it would take up a great deal of time, to show wherein the Holy Ghost calls the Gospel the Kingdom of Heaven; but it is called the Kingdom of Heaven, because it is the Kingdom of Christ that is Lord from Heaven, and Christ rules in it by the preaching of the Gospel: But now, though it be the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Kingly power of Christ be in the preaching of the Gospel, yet this does not prevail upon all sorts; it is like a net that is cast into the Sea, the meaning of it seems to be nothing else, but that the preaching of the Gospel among a multitude of People, is like a net cast into the Sea, wherein some ⟨p. 173⟩are catched, and others remain worldly, filthy, and good for nothing, that is the meaning of the Text, and not any warrant at all for mixed Communions; but only thus; where the Preaching of the Gospel is, there are some fishes good and worthy to be received, and others that are to be cast out: Now, as there is an external Kingdom, so there is an internal Kingdom of Christ within our hearts; Jesus Christ himself sets up his Throne in the hearts of every man and woman whose sins are pardoned, that is a certain truth; and this day in the Name of God I pronounce unto you, that if your sin be pardoned, Jesus Christ hath set up his Throne in your hearts; and if you find any other Throne and Lord but Christ to rule you, know from God that your souls are yet in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity, and your sins are not pardoned; but that soul, who in the Preaching of the Gospel can say, Blessed be God I have felt Christ come into my heart, and prevailed upon me; and now Christs Laws are the Laws I desire to be ruled by; God knows I know but little of them, but I will labour to understand them better; therefore I come this day, that I might know more of the Law of God, and that Jesus Christ might rule more powerfully in me than ever he hath done;
And do you look to him for the law of your thoughts, words and actions, and walk before him as your Soveraign Lord, depending on him to know his will continually, and fear and honour him as a King: If the Kingdom of Christ be in you, that is, if the Gospel have an effectual work upon you; for the Gospel in the power of it is ordinarily exprest by the Kingdom of Heaven; when the Word comes to any place, the Kingdom of Heaven is said to come; it would take up a great deal of time, to shew wherein the Holy Ghost calls the Gospel the Kingdom of Heaven; but it is called the Kingdom of Heaven, because it is the Kingdom of Christ that is Lord from Heaven, and Christ rules in it by the preaching of the Gospel: But now, though it be the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Kingly power of Christ be in the preaching of the Gospel, yet this does not prevail upon all sorts; it is like a net that is cast into the Sea, the meaning of it seems to be nothing else, but that the preaching of the Gospel among a multitude of People, is like a net cast into the Sea, wherein some