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…

and tells us, that he that must be our Judge for our eternal condition, is our Advocate with the Father: and tells us also, that God accepts of the uprightness and the sincerity of the heart, and that the want of perfection shall never damn thy soul: He that stands before the Lord to make atonement, and to be our Advocate to plead with the Father for us; he it is that must be the Judge of our eternal estate; and therefore when I set my self before the Lord, I consider that I have to deal with him in a Covenant of grace: Suppose I find and feel such and such corruptions and weaknesses in me; Is it not possible that my estate is happy by the Covenant of grace? Collect your selves, and say, Why do I determine of my everlasting condition? Have I to deal with God in the Covenant of grace, and cannot these imperfections stand with it? Why do I make such conclusions that my state is naught, because of the stirrings of such and such corruptions? The doubts and fears of most Christians arise from hence, because they have not a clear understanding of the difference between the Covenant of grace and the Covenant of works; there is nothing in the world would so satisfy the Consciences of men and women, so as a clear understanding of the Covenant of grace and the Covenant of works: Many people cry out of the Preachers, that they disquiet and trouble the hearts of people by their Preaching; the truth is, no Preachers occasion so much the trouble and perplexity of Consciences, as those that preach Morality and merely the way of duty, and never come to make them see clearly the difference between the Covenant of grace and the Covenant of works; and I appeal unto you, who are they that most quiet and settle your Consciences, and satisfy your spirits; Are they not those Preachers that open the difference between the Covenant of grace and the Covenant of works? Certainly those Preachers that show you what the Covenant of grace is, are the only men that quiet and satisfy Conscience; and 'tis a truth, that nothing can do it but that: You that are Christians, how should you then labour to get a further insight into the Covenant of grace; and instead of other Discourses less useful, let this be the subject of your discourse, the difference of the ⟨p. 198⟩Covenant of works and the Covenant of grace, or the blessings of this Covenant;

and tells us, that he that must be our Judge for our eternal condition, is our Advocate with the Father: and tells us also, that God accepts of the uprightness and the sincerity of the heart, and that the want of perfection shall never damn thy soul: He that stands before the Lord to make atonement, and to be our Advocate to plead with the Father for us; he it is that must be the Judge of our eternal estate; and therefore when I set my self before the Lord, I consider that I have to deal with him in a Covenant of grace: Suppose I find and feel such and such corruptions and weaknesses in me; Is it not possible that my estate is happy by the Covenant of grace? Collect your selves, and say, Why do I determine of my everlasting condition? Have I to deal with God in the Covenant of grace, and cannot these imperfections stand with it? Why do I make such conclusions that my state is naught, because of the stirrings of such and such corruptions? The doubts and fears of most Christians arise from hence, because they have not a clear understanding of the difference between the Covenant of grace and the Covenant of works; there is nothing in the world would so satisfie the Consciences of men and women, so as a clear understanding of the Covenant of grace and the Covenant of works: Many people cry out of the Preachers, that they disquiet and trouble the hearts of people by their Preaching; the truth is, no Preachers occasion so much the trouble and perplexity of Consciences, as those that preach Morality and meerly the way of duty, and never come to make them see clearly the difference between the Covenant of grace and the Covenant of works; and I appeal unto you, who are they that most quiet and settle your Consciences, and satisfie your spirits; Are they not those Preachers that open the difference between the Covenant of grace and the Covenant of works? Certainly those Preachers that shew you what the Covenant of grace is, are the only men that quiet and satisfie Conscience; and 'tis a truth, that nothing can do it but that: You that are Christians, how should you then labour to get a further insight into the Covenant of grace; and instead of other Discourses less useful, let this be the subject of your discourse, the difference of the