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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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Sixthly, Those whom God pardons, he makes them know what pardon means; thou hopest thy sins are pardoned; Dost thou understand, and know what hath been said about it? certainly those whom God pardons, he causes admiring thoughts in the soul of the excellency of this blessedness of the pardon of sin; the soul is taken with the admiration of three things. First, It admires at the freeness and the riches of Gods grace. Secondly, At the price that was paid for pardon. Thirdly, It admires at the wonderful good it is brought into, and that which the soul receives by this blessedness of the pardon of sin; other things God may bestow on men and women, and they know not the worth of them, and do not mind God in them; but when God bestows pardon of sin, he makes the soul have admiring thoughts of it, and to know what it is, Jer. 33.9. And it shall be to me a Name of joy, a praise, and honour, and they shall fear and tremble, for all the goodness and prosperity that I procure unto it; certainly if others shall do it, much more themselves; those whom God pardons he bestows such mercies upon, as that the soul shall even stand amazed with a trembling heart and an amazed spirit, to behold all the goodness that the Lord shows to it: Now, have your hearts been taken with it? you may know much of your Evidences if your hearts have been taken with admiring thoughts of it; for certainly when God pardons sin, he doth it to magnify his grace, and set out to Men and Angels in the infiniteness of it, what his grace can do to poor souls; if this be Gods end, as certainly it is, then it must needs be that those whom God pardons, he gives such grace as shall cause the soul that it shall have admiring thoughts of it; Has thy soul seen so much of the grace of God, that it admires at the greatness and goodness of it? be of good comfort, thy sins are pardoned.
Sixthly, Those whom God pardons, he makes them know what pardon means; thou hopest thy sins are pardoned; Dost thou understand, and know what hath been said about it? certainly those whom God pardons, he causes admiring thoughts in the soul of the excellency of this blessedness of the pardon of sin; the soul is taken with the admiration of three things. First, It admires at the freeness and the riches of Gods grace. Secondly, At the price that was paid for pardon. Thirdly, It admires at the wonderful good it is brought into, and that which the soul receives by this blessedness of the pardon of sin; other things God may bestow on men and women, and they know not the worth of them, and do not mind God in them; but when God bestows pardon of sin, he makes the soul have admiring thoughts of it, and to know what it is,