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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.
1You will say, How must we seek it? and what is to be done?
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First,1 In the seeking pardon of your sins set your selves as in the presence of God, and put this upon your souls; I am now looking after the pardon of sin, but how do I do it? does my heart work so in it as that I can satisfy my own Conscience in the work I do? that it is such a work, that may testify my high respect to God from whom I seek it; is it such a work as manifests that I am sensible, it is a business of the most infinite concernment that I have in all the world; and am I sensible of the infinite Power and Majesty of God as one that is infinitely above me; when you seek after pardon, you must do it so, as that you may be able to satisfy your Consciences that your seeking is such a work as does hold forth the glorious greatness of that God that you are seeking after; many pray slightly, as God be merciful to me, and mumble over a few words, and have done; does this hold forth that they have such an apprehension of the greatness of the power of that God they seek after, surely no; that's the first.
First,1 In the seeking pardon of your sins set your selves as in the presence of God, and put this upon your souls; I am now looking after the pardon of sin, but how do I do it? does my heart work so in it as that I can satisfie my own Conscience in the work I do? that it is such a work, that may testifie my high respect to God from whom I seek it; is it such a work as manifests that I am sensible, it is a business of the most infinite concernment that I have in all the world; and am I sensible of the infinite Power and Majesty of God as one that is infinitly above me; when you seek after pardon, you must do it so, as that you may be able to satisfie your Consciences that your seeking is such a work as does hold forth the glorious greatness of that God that you are seeking after; many pray slightly, as God be merciful to me, and mumble over a few words, and have done; does this hold forth that they have such an apprehension of the greatness of the power of that God they seek after, surely no; thats the first.