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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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The fourth Rule for trial of your Estates is this, That when you find the Word on your side in any thing, never let go your hold of the Word, when you are persuaded the Word speaks well of your side in such or such a thing, never do any thing against it; as we must not receive any comfort but by the Word, so we must not reject any comforts but by the Word; some may say, I find something in the Word that makes for me, but I am afraid I am not thus and thus qualified; but do you find any thing in the Word that gives you ground to think so? we must rest upon the Word both ways, as we must not receive any thing to build our comforts on, but it must be from the Word; so we must not receive any thing to trouble us but it must be from the Word; it must be the Word must wound men; for the Consciences of men and women are under the power of no creature, but the Word: Now as there is no power in any creature in the world to raise a dejected soul, and to comfort a troubled Conscience truly but the Word; So the people of God are to know, that they are so above the power of all other things, that nothing in the World should trouble them but the Word only: as they should account it a weak vain thing to rest in the opinion of others for the comfort of their souls, that are in a good condition by what they find out of the Word; so they should account it a vain thing to rest on their own conceits in time of trouble, or in the saying of others, besides what they have out of the Word; the soul says, I am afraid my state is not good; But O my soul, is there any thing in the Word that says thus; that they that are thus and thus are not pardoned: As I must not conclude I am pardoned, but must bring something out of the Word that ⟨p. 192⟩says it, so I must not conclude my state is bad without the Word, say so too; but I find many distempers and many wanderings in my soul; give me leave to ask you this; where doth Gods Word say that such a man that hath a great many wandering thoughts is not justified? where does the Word of God say that a heart that is under the remainder of some corruptions, and the soul labours under them as much as under any burden in the world; where does the Word say that that soul is not justified?
The fourth Rule for trial of your Estates is this, That when you find the Word on your side in any thing, never let go your hold of the Word, when you are perswaded the Word speaks well of your side in such or such a thing, never do any thing against it; as we must not receive any comfort but by the Word, so we must not reject any comforts but by the Word; some may say, I find something in the Word that makes for me, but I am afraid I am not thus and thus qualified; but do you find any thing in the Word that gives you ground to think so? we must rest upon the Word both ways, as we must not receive any thing to build our comforts on, but it must be from the Word; so we must not receive any thing to trouble us but it must be from the Word; it must be the Word must wound men; for the Consciences of men and women are under the power of no creature, but the Word: Now as there is no power in any creature in the world to raise a dejected soul, and to comfort a troubled Conscience truly but the Word; So the people of God are to know, that they are so above the power of all other things, that nothing in the World should trouble them but the Word only: as they should account it a weak vain thing to rest in the opinion of others for the comfort of their souls, that are in a good condition by what they find out of the Word; so they should account it a vain thing to rest on their own conceits in time of trouble, or in the saying of others, besides what they have out of the Word; the soul says, I am affraid my state is not good; But O my soul, is there any thing in the Word that says thus; that they that are thus and thus are not pardoned: As I must not conclude I am pardoned, but must bring something out of the Word that