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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.
Now th•n, if thy seeking be such as that thou knowest what it is thou seekest after, then it must hold forth also that thou dost understand the Name of God is exceeding glorious in it; and then as thou doest apprehend this, so accordingly thy heart will work after it; and therefore when you are alone, and you find your hearts working this way, say, What do I do? Do I so call upon him, and seek after him, as that this work of mine declares to God and my own Conscience I seek for it so, as that I may manifest the glorious Name of the great God is in it? certainly if I do not do it thus, I take Gods Name in vain.
Sixthly, Further, you must seek after it as if you were now to answer for all your sins before the Lord, as you would wish you had done it then, so do it now; I put it to every one of you; Have you not been on your sick-beds, and in your apprehension near unto death; hath not God wakened your Consciences, and you have been afraid upon the account of your sins; what kind of temper your souls have been in then, know it concerns you every day in the whole course of your lives to have the same apprehensions as you had at that time; do now as then you would have done: certainly thou dost not understand what pardon of sin means, if thou dost not seek it thus.
Sixthly, Further, you must seek after it as if you were now to answer for all your sins before the Lord, as you would wish you had done it then, so do it now; I put it to every one of you; Have you not been on your sick-beds, and in your apprehension neer unto death; hath not God wakened your Consciences, and you have been afraid upon the account of your sins; what kind of temper your souls have been in then, know it concerns you every day in the whole course of your lives to have the same apprehensions as you had at that time; do now as then you would have done: certainly thou dost not understand what pardon of sin means, if thou dost not seek it thus.