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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.
The third rule is this, To help you how to make use of signs, when you would put your selves on trial, you must take heed you do not cast your Estates for the trial of your selves on times of temptations; judg not of your estates by what you find and feel in times of temptation, for they are very unfit times to determine your condition upon a trial then, as when temptations are exceeding strong, and horror and fear comes into the soul; and perhaps some hear may know what I mean, when I speak of horror and fear coming in strongly upon them, then it is a time that you had rather need to call upon God, and fall down upon your knees to Prayer, then to look to the trial and examination of your selves at that time: It is with many in this case as it hath been with some that have been struck with horror of death before the Judge, and have had the Book given them to read, though they have been good Scholars, and able to read before, yet when the horror of death hath been so upon them they have not been able to read one word; and so it is with many of Gods ⟨p. 190⟩children in times of strong temptations, they are not able to read their Evidences; as Children when their eyes are bleared and blinded, give them the Book and they cannot read thereon: so when your hearts are under great temptations and afflictions, this is not a time of trial; then by the way, if it be not for a godly man, much less for a wicked man: many wicked men put it off to the day of death, and never so much as put themselves to trial till horror of Conscience or fears of death put them upon it; it is an ill time for Gods people to try themselves then: Suppose you would weigh Gold, you will not do it in a storm or wind; the trial of our estate is like the weighing of gold; for we are to weigh our selves by the balance of the Sanctuary, that we may know whether we shall be weight when God comes to weigh us; for every soul must be weighed, and woe be to those to whom God shall say as he did to Belshazzar, when the hand-writing appeared upon the wall, it was so terrible to him, that his knees smote one against another; But what was that? Thou art weighed in the balance, and art found too light: such a hand will many find one day: Poor soul that thoughtest thy self in a good condition, and that thy sins were pardoned; thou art weighed in the balance, and art found too light;
The third rule is this, To help you how to make use of signs, when you would put your selves on tryal, you must take heed you do not cast your Estates for the tryal of your selves on times of temptations; judg not of your estates by what you find and feel in times of temptation, for they are very unfit times to determine your condition upon a tryal then, as when temptations are exceeding strong, and horrour and fear comes into the soul; and perhaps some hear may know what I mean, when I speak of horrour and fear coming in strongly upon them, then it is a time that you had rather need to call upon God, and fall down upon your knees to Prayer, then to look to the tryal and examination of your selves at that time: It is with many in this case as it hath been with some that have been struck with horrour of death before the Judge, and have had the Book given them to read, though they have been good Scholars, and able to read before, yet when the horrour of death hath been so upon them they have not been able to read one word; and so it is with many of Gods