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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.
Thirdly, It must be done so, as that you may have this testimony in your Consciences, that you never sought after any thing in the world so as you sought after this; though it was never so an important occasion, yet there is nothing after which your endeavours have been so powerful as after this; I appeal to you in this place; is the work of your souls after pardon so? as that in your own Consciences you can say, if any business ever took up my heart, this hath, if ever my spirit was up in any thing in the world it is in this; certainly, unless it be so, you have not done that that God requires of you.
Thirdly, It must be done so, as that you may have this testimony in your Consciences, that you never sought after any thing in the world so as you sought after this; though it was never so an important occasion, yet there is nothing after which your endevours have been so powerful as after this; I appeale to you in this place; is the work of your souls after pardon so? as that in your own Consciences you can say, if any business ever took up my heart, this hath, if ever my spirit was up in any thing in the world it is in this; certainly, unless it be so, you have not done that that God requires of you.
Fourthly, You must so do it as apprehending God is ready to be gone, and to turn away from you; you must so seek after him, as apprehending, for ought you know, that God is just a going away; and if thou hast it not now, 'tis uncertain whether thou shalt ever have it; the soul must cry as a poor Malefactor does when the Judge is on the Bench, he cries all that while; but when he is ready to rise, and is going off, then he cries mercy, mercy; when he thinks, if he let him go, then he shall never see his face more; he cries then to purpose; so should it be with every soul that understands the danger of losing of it; you should so seek after it, as looking on your selves standing before God the Judge of all the World, having the sentence of death out against you, yet for the present God is looking on you, and admits of you to look on him; but so as apprehending God ready to turn aside, and you know not whether ever he will grant you such an opportunity of seeing him any more; O then if a man would seek after God as ready to turn aside from him, and for ought he knows, he should never see him more: Certainly, if you know the evil of sin, and the blessedness of pardon of sin; What a deep impression would such an apprehension make upon your hearts.