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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
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.
First, This; that although I must seek after God for the pardon of sin, yet know there is nothing in a natural man that is or can be acceptable; all his endeavours have not that in them that can gain him acceptance with God: But then to what purpose are we to endeavour to do any thing? yes, we must be striving after the pardon of sin, although without Christ we can do nothing; and a bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit, yet it is to purpose that we be doing, for God likes well the exercise of the work of common gifts; though they are not saving, and to eternal life, yet God likes the exercise of them so far as there is any thing good and commends them; when that young man came to Christ, Mar. 10.21. Christ looked upon him and loved him, though not with such a love as to save him and bring him to eternal life, yet God did discover love to such a one; therefore it is to some purpose that a man should put himself on doing what he can, if it be only for that. 2. It is to some purpose that the heart be stirring after God and Christ, because hereby we shall evidence that we are not so negligent of God and Christ, and the things of eternal life as we were before. 3. It is to some purpose, for in the stirring of the common works of Gods Spirit, God many times comes in with saving works; for God works not upon men as upon stocks or stones, but God puts them on by stirring up the common works of his Spirit, and at that time when they are most in stirring, it is Gods usual way to come in with ⟨p. 205⟩the saving works of his Spirit; therefore it is not to no purpose that we are putting on poor creatures to do what they can.
First, This; that although I must seek after God for the pardon of sin, yet know there is nothing in a natural man that is or can be acceptable; all his endeavours have not that in them that can gain him acceptance with God: But then to what purpose are we to endeavour to do any thing? yes, we must be striving after the pardon of sin, although without Christ we can do nothing; and a bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit, yet it is to purpose that we be doing, for God likes well the exercise of the work of common gifts; though they are not saving, and to eternal life, yet God likes the exercise of them so far as there is any thing good and commends them; when that young man came to Christ,