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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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many people in the case of trouble of Conscience, although they have some evidences and good ground out of the Word for them, yet will have many fears and doubts because of the remainder of such and such corruptions in them; but now the ground of their doubts is their own fears, and nothing out of the Word; and so when any speaks and applies the Word unto them, they cannot say but it is suitable to their condition, and that God hath shown mercy unto them; but so soon as you are gone the fears and suggestions of their own hearts prevail against them, to take away all their comforts more than all the applications of the Word prevailed to uphold & continue their comforts; it is just with many that are gracious in the case of fears and doubts, as it is with the wicked in regard of their hopes, a wicked man hath the Word against him, that he is not in a good condition, but his own self-love and conce• encourage him to presume that he is in a good estate; now he regards his own opinion and conceit, and presumes upon that, that his estate is good more than on whatsoever is said unto him out of the Word that it is not so: so the people of God, although they are in a good estate, yet their own fears so damps their hearts that makes them question that it is not so, but the ground of it is their own fears, as the ground of the wicked in thinking their estate is good is from their own opinions; so the People of God many times from their own conceit and opinions, rather than from the Word, think their estate is bad: Take this Rule, As you must receive no comfort but out of the Word; so you must not receive any trouble but from the Word; when you receive trouble any other ways, you do not consider that God has laid your estates so high that ⟨p. 193⟩all your troubles depend on nothing but the Word; and therefore answer all with Scripture, when the Devil casts temptations before thee, bid him prove that thy estate is not good from the Word, I have this out of the Word to prove it is so, and thou hast nothing to the contrary: in other things you will not be baffled, as in your Evidences for your Estates; suppose a man come and lay claim unto it, although you cannot perhaps make out your title clear, yet you will bid him prove the contrary, and show what grounds he hath to lay claim to it;
many people in the case of trouble of Conscience, although they have some evidences and good ground out of the Word for them, yet will have many fears and doubts because of the remainder of such and such corruptions in them; but now the ground of their doubts is their own fears, and nothing out of the Word; and so when any speaks and applies the Word unto them, they cannot say but it is suitable to their condition, and that God hath shewn mercy unto them; but so soon as you are gone the fears and suggestions of their own hearts prevail against them, to take away all their comforts more than all the applications of the Word prevailed to uphold & continue their comforts; it is just with many that are gracious in the case of fears and doubts, as it is with the wicked in regard of their hopes, a wicked man hath the Word against him, that he is not in a good condition, but his own self-love and conce incourage him to presume that he is in a good estate; now he regards his own opinion and conceit, and presumes upon that, that his estate is good more than on whatsoever is said unto him out of the Word that it is not so: so the people of God, although they are in a good estate, yet their own fears so damps their hearts that makes them question that it is not so, but the ground of it is their own fears, as the ground of the wicked in thinking their estate is good is from their own opinions; so the People of God many times from their own conceit and opinions, rather than from the Word, think their estate is bad: Take this Rule, As you must receive no comfort but out of the Word; so you must not receive any trouble but from the Word; when you receive trouble any other ways, you do not consider that God has laid your estates so high that