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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 18: Of the Rules how to apply the Evidences of Pardon 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.
CHAP. XVIII. Of the Rules how to apply the Evidences of Pardon of Sin.
IT is a matter of great concernment to us, to try whether our sins are forgiven; for in times of danger our hearts are ready to sink; but the Evidence of this, that our sins are forgiven will hold up our hearts in the midst of the greatest dangers whatsoever; if Heaven and Earth should meet together, if I have assurance of this, for so it follows after David had pronounced him blessed whose sins were forgiven, Vers. 6. Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him; there may be floods of great waters: but he that hath his sins forgiven, God shall preserve him and compass him about with songs of deliverance; but they that have their sins compass them about, shall have horror and terror to compass them about; but says David, having assurance his sins were pardoned, Thou art my hiding place, and thou shalt compass me about; therefore if your hearts close with those Evidences given, you may have comfort in the great water-floods, God will be a hiding place unto you; it concerns very much to labour to put this out of doubt, and not to put it off to a sick-bed, or death-bed time of examination; but now to those Evidences there is another thing, which is of great concernment in this Point, and that is to give some rules how to make use of those or all other Evidences that shall be given at any time for trial of any: Especially for the trial of our states in point of Justification or Sanctification, but they will be helpful to the use of any other Evidences whatsoever.
IT is a matter of great concernment to us, to try whether our sins are forgiven; for in times of danger our hearts are ready to sink; but the Evidence of this, that our sins are forgiven will hold up our hearts in the midst of the greatest dangers whatsoever; if Heaven and Earth should meet together, if I have assurance of this, for so it follows after David had pronounc't him blessed whose sins were forgiven, Vers. 6. Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him; there may be floods of great waters: but he that hath his sins forgiven, God shall preserve him and compass him about with songs of deliverance; but they that have their sins compass them about, shall have horrour and terrour to compass them about; but says David, having assurance his sins were pardoned, Thou art my hiding place, and thou shalt compass me about; therefore if your hearts close with those Evidences given, you may have comfort in the great water-floods, God will be a hiding place unto you; it concerns very much to labour to put this out of doubt, and not to put it off to a sick-bed, or death-bed time of examination; but now to those Evidences there is another thing, which is of great concernment in this Point, and that is to give some rules how to make use of those or all other Evidences that shall be given at any time for tryal of any: Especially for the tryal of our states in point of Justification or Sanctification, but they will be helpful to the use of any other Evidences whatsoever.