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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.
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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 ⟨p. 188⟩that they have sense of nothing, and in such a condition as that they are not able to know their own hearts, nor feel any workings upon them: Now, if it be merely from want of sense, and that the contrary positive evil appear not, but only the want of feeling of what thou hadst and felt heretofore; thou art to have recourse to the days of old, as David often speaks that he would remember the days of old; it may be you will say, some Hypocrites have thought they have been in this condition, they have had many slashes, and yet they have proved naught, how can we have recourse to what was before when God did work upon me, I can indeed remember when God did draw my heart, and then I thought I could have closed with any Evidence out of the Word, I felt such workings in my heart, but I might do all that and yet all be but in hypocrisy. I answer, that certainly the bare want of sense is not ground enough for me to think that all was in hypocrisy; for this, consider, if I groan under it as under an affliction, and would fain feel those former manifestations I had formerly, and that I can take little comfort in my present case, and that my soul is continually longing and panting after the workings of Gods grace that I heretofore had; if this be so, and that there is nothing to the contrary, thou fallest not off to sin, or to the world to satisfy thy soul in sinful ways, and that thy heart is yet panting after God; if it be thus with thee, thou mayst take the comfort of what thou hadst before, and feed upon it as Provision laid up before hand for thy soul, as if thou hadst it present.
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 meerly 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