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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.
Secondly, If thou wilt seek after pardon of sin, it must be such a seeking as may testify that thou dost prize thy life here in this world above all things else in it; because God gives thee time in it to seek after him; Is thy seeking such that manifests the time of thy life is given thee for this very end? if you were sensible of this, you would seek it in another manner than you do; you would seek it as a condemned man seeks his pardon; for certainly, every man is a condemned man, and the time of your life is like a condemned mans time, between his condemnation and execution: Now does your seeking testify and witness that you spend your time, and that your hearts are so stirred in seeking pardon, as that it holds forth you account your lives precious, and use it for the same end, to get the pardon of your sin, if a condemned man have time to seek a pardon two or three days; and he follows drinking, playing, and the like, certainly none would apprehend this man spent his time, as if it were given him for to get his pardon; look upon the courses and lives of most men; and are they such that does testify they live to that very end, to seek pardon? if men ⟨p. 208⟩were so sensible of it, as they should, they would cry and weep, and lament unto God for the pardon of their sins, and so carry it as would testify they prize their lives at a high rate for this end, that they may seek the pardon of their sins.
Secondly, If thou wilt seek after pardon of sin, it must be such a seeking as may testifie that thou dost prize thy life here in this world above all things else in it; because God gives thee time in it to seek after him; Is thy seeking such that manifests the time of thy life is given the for this very end? if you were sensible of this, you would seek it in another manner than you do; you would seek it as a condemn'd man seeks his pardon; for certainly, every man is a condemn'd man, and the time of your life is like a condemn'd mans time, between his condemnation and execution: Now does your seeking testifie and witness that you spend your time, and that your hearts are so stir'd in seeking pardon, as that it holds forth you account your lives pretious, and use it for the same end, to get the pardon of your sin, if a condemn'd man have time to seek a pardon two or three days; and he followes drinking, playing, and the like, certainly none would apprehend this man spent his time, as if it were given him for to get his pardon; look upon the courses and lives of most men; and are they such that does testifie they live to that very end, to seek pardon? if men