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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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But Hypocrites that fall off from the visitations of Gods Spirit, they fall not off only to a want of sense of those former movings and workings of the Spirit, but their hearts come to be satisfied with something else, and they take up with some other contentments; and 'tis not a want of feeling only, of what they had heretofore, but their hearts run out from God into other ways of sin and wickedness, so it is with Hypocrites, but thou hast this testimony, that it is not so with thee, that although thou dost want the present sense of the work of God upon thee, yet thy heart longs after God, and thou art unsatisfied in this condition, and 'tis the greatest affliction that ⟨p. 189⟩ever befell thee, and there is nothing else that thou lets thy heart run out unto, but thou art longing to get thy heart into that blessed frame that thou wast in heretofore; then certainly peace be unto thee; thou art to look back upon what thou hast had heretofore, and wait upon God for his return again, for he will come, and thy soul shall rejoice again in him; As that Martyr Mr. Glover, a little before he suffered, the Spirit of God seemed to leave him, and he was in extreme darkness, and had no feeling of any Evidence of Gods love to him, yet he was to dye the next day, and all his Evidences were lost in his own apprehension, yet his friends told him, that God would appear, and desired him to give them some sign, if God did come unto him; that night he was in darkness, and until the Officers came to carry him to the Stake, he had yet no sense or evidence of Gods love, but when he was tied to the Stake, he cried out, He is come, He is come: so that you must not argue, because you have no present sense, that therefore you have no evidence of your good condition; but if you have had it heretofore, you may build upon it that your state is good, although you have no present sense; that is the second rule.
But Hypocrites that fall off from the visitations of Gods Spirit, they fall not off only to a want of sense of those former movings and workings of the Spirit, but their hearts come to be satisfied with something else, and they take up with some other contentments; and 'tis not a want of feeling only, of what they had heretofore, but their hearts run out from God into other ways of sin and wickedness, so it is with Hypocrites, but thou hast this testimony, that it is not so with thee, that although thou dost want the present sense of the work of God upon thee, yet thy heart longs after God, and thou art unsatisfied in this condition, and 'tis the greatest affliction that