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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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therefore it concerns you now to weigh your selves in the balance of the Sanctuary: when you weigh gold, you must not hold the Scales in the midst of wind, storms, and tempest that hurries the balance up and down; but it must be in such a place that you may hold them steadily that nothing may stir them; for in the wind the lighter may be blown down, and the heaviest uppermost; but if you hold them in a still place, you may try to a grain: so the Soul of man is like the Scales in the wind, in a time of temptation thou wilt have enough to come in to turn the balance, lift it up, and make thee seem too light; and therefore when you would weigh your condition, do it when your hearts are composed, and you are your selves; when your hearts are quiet, then lay your souls to the balance: many weigh their hearts in a time when trouble and affliction is upon their spirits, but they cannot do it, all they do then is nothing; there are but two ⟨p. 191⟩things then to be done, either to open your condition to some or other that may help you; or else fall down upon your knees in Prayer to God, to get help from him to support you under, and deliver you from the temptations that are upon you: but then 'tis no time for a man or woman to try themselves, in times of strong temptations, when it may be said, a man or woman then is scarce themselves.
therefore it concerns you now to weigh your selves in the ballance of the Sanctuary: when you weigh gold, you must not hold the Scales in the mid'st of wind, storms, and tempest that hurries the ballance up and down; but it must be in such a place that you may hold them steadily that nothing may stir them; for in the wind the lighter may be blown down, and the heaviest uppermost; but if you hold them in a still place, you may try to a grain: so the Soul of man is like the Scales in the wind, in a time of temptation thou wilt have enough to come in to turn the ballance, lift it up, and make thee seem too light; and therefore when you would weigh your condition, do it when your hearts are composed, and you are your selves; when your hearts are quiet, then lay your souls to the ballance: many weigh their hearts in a time when trouble and affliction is upon their spirits, but they cannot do it, all they do then is nothing; there are but two ⟨p. 191⟩things then to be done, either to open your condition to some or other that may help you; or else fall down upon your knees in Prayer to God, to get help from him to support you under, and deliver you from the temptations that are upon you: but then 'tis no time for a man or woman to try themselves, in times of strong temptations, when it may be said, a man or woman then is scarse themselves.