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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
for according to the degree you have of that, all other graces will grow; you hope that your sins are pardoned, How come you by it? the soul that hath true pardon of sin, hath fetched it from Heaven in a right way, in Gods own way; How is that? it is on this wi•e; the soul that sees it self lost and undone through the guilt of sin, God revealing his infinite riches of grace in the Gospel, such a soul seeing God on his Throne, holding out his Son, God-Man as Mediator to make an atonement, it by a mighty work of faith, closes with that glorious way of Reconciliation by the Son, that it sees God the Father tender to him, and so fetches grace out of the Treasury of Gods bounty, in the way of the Gospel, in an Evangelical way that was before opened. Examine now, Have you fetched out your pardon through the way of the Gospel, that the soul by a mighty act of faith hath been willing to venture its self and its eternal station on the Son of God? Have you looked on Christ as a mighty Mediator, as one able to save you? then you have acted faith in a Gospel way, and your sins are pardoned: Again, Are you pardoned? then you are sealed, that you heard likewise of; there is the Broad Seal of Heaven that stamps the Image of God upon the soul, as the Image of the King is on the Seal of the Kingdom; so the Image of God, the Broad Seal of Heaven is stamped upon the soul, which I mention that you may make use of it in examination.
for according to the degree you have of that, all other graces will grow; you hope that your sins are pardoned, How come you by it? the soul that hath true pardon of sin, hath fetch't it from Heaven in a right way, in Gods own way; How is that? it is on this wi•e; the soul that sees it self lost and undone through the guilt of sin, God revealing his infinite riches of grace in the Gospel, such a soul seeing God on his Throne, holding out his Son, God-Man as Mediator to make an attonement, it by a mighty work of faith, closes with that glorious way of Reconciliation by the Son, that it sees God the Father tender to him, and so fetches grace out of the Treasury of Gods bounty, in the way of the Gospel, in an Evangelical way that was before opened. Examine now, Have you fetcht out your pardon through the way of the Gospel, that the soul by a mighty act of faith hath been willing to venture its self and its eternal station on the Son of God? Have you look't on Christ as a mighty Mediator, as one able to save you? then you have acted faith in a Gospel way, and your sins are pardoned: Again, Are you pardoned? then you are sealed, that you heard likewise of; there is the Broad Seal of Heaven that stamps the Image of God upon the soul, as the Image of the King is on the Seal of the Kingdom; so the Image of God, the Broad Seal of Heaven is stampt upon the soul, which I mention that you may make use of it in examination.