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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.
as it is in sin, where one sin hath Dominion over the soul, though the others be not seen, yet we are to know, that other sins have dominion over the soul too; though some men live under the slavery of one sin more than another, as one man under the power of ⟨p. 187⟩Covetousness, another under the power of Ambition, or any other sin; this man may be thought to be under the power of but one sin, but the truth is, he is a slave to all sin, every natural man that is out of Christ, is under the power of every sin, he is a slave to the Devil in every sin; but by reason of the constitution of his body, and for some outward respects, he may refrain from some particular sins that do not so well suit with him, whereas if it would serve for his own ends and purposes, he could as well commit any sin as that one; this is a certain truth, Whosoever makes not Conscience of every sin, he makes Conscience of none; though he refrain from the practice of some others, it is not out of Conscience, but for by-ends; therefore he that is under the power of one sin, is under the power of every sin: Many think all men are sinners, and for their parts they have but a few; such a sin I cannot leave, but I am free from all others; Dost thou keep from all sin but one? God will find thee under the power of every sin, and God will charge thee at the Tribunal as under the power of all sin; so now on the contrary, Gods people are mightily troubled that they cannot find the work of Gods graces in all of them; such an one they find, but they want it in another, because it is not so evidently stirring as the other; but as the truth is certain on one side, of the wicked; so it's true on the other side of the godly; that where there is one sin there is every sin; so where there is one grace, there is all grace; there is the power of godliness in every grace where there's one grace; that is the first rule to help us in making use of the Evidences before given. The
Second rule is this, When ever we have found any one Evidence, upon serious examination, in the presence of God, and now it appears not positively to the contrary at the present, but thou art merely dubious of those things that heretofore thou hast felt, because thou dost not feel them now, in this case we may and should have recourse to what God has wrought heretofore, and build upon the former workings of Gods Spirit upon us; true it is, when we come to give Evidences in our Ministry of those that have grace, we may meet at such a time with them as