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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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Eighthly, Another note is this, that according to the degree of pardon of sin, so all other graces grow; the knowledge and assurance of Gods love in Christ in the pardon of sin, it causes all other graces to grow proportionably, as you have it in Ephes. 3.19. about the knowledge of the love of God in Christ; mark the connection, he desires That they might comprehend with all Saints what is the height, and depth, &c. and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, and be filled with all the fullness of God; What is the love of Christ? the love of Christ is the procuring cause of the forgiveness of sin before God the Father; and when you know this, this will fill you with all the fullness of God: Mark, first It brings God in to the soul; And secondly, Fills the soul with God; And thirdly, Fills the soul with the fullness of God; And fourthly, Fills the soul with all the fullness of God; when you come to know the love of God in Christ, if any thing in the world will fill the soul with all the fullness of God, this will: many will say, they hope their sins are pardoned; Do you so? then you know the love of God in Christ; for this is a special work of the love of God in Christ; to pardon sin; now the Apostle says, when you come to know this, you come to be filled with all the fullness of God; What is the fullness of God? as faith increases with the rest of the graces, so you grow fuller and fuller in Gods fullness; and so you grow more into a fuller assurance of pardon of sin: now the soul can say, as I find more assurance of the love of God in his Son, so I find my soul more filled with this grace of the fullness of God Alas, when I was under the Law, God and I were strangers, I felt little of God in me; but now I begin to know the love of God in the Gospel, I begin to have my soul filled with fullness of God, not with chaff and dross and filthy things, which heretofore my thoughts, will, and affections were filled withal; but now 'tis otherwise with me, my soul is now filled with all the fullness of God; certainly that soul that can say thus, may well go a way with that word of Christ spoken to the woman, Luk, 7.50. Go in peace, thy faith hath saved thee, Rom. 5.1. The Apostle speaks of pardon of sin, being justified by Faith, we have peace with God; that is, God ⟨p. 180⟩revealing justification by Faith in Christ: it brings peace with it;