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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.
Eighthly, Do this: so seek after it as to desire if it were possible that you might bring as much glory unto God, as he would have had of you if he should have damned you for ever; this is an excellent frame of spirit though you do not know it, but though you do not, yet you should put your selves upon such a kind of work and God may come in; you cry out for pardon, but never cry out for Gods honour, O what shall become of the honour of God that he hath lost by me, and the dishonour I have brought to him, say, O Lord I have dishonoured thy Name, O that I might so honour thy Name as I have dishonoured it; O Lord thou mightest make up thy honour in my eternal damnation; but O Lord, I would if I could do any thing that might make up that dishonour that I have brought by my sin, if I could do any thing that thou mightest have any honour in, I would do it: for a close, I shall put this for a consideration to you; whatsoever you would do upon any supposition, suppose your danger were as great as ever it was in all your lives, what you would do then do it now; you must do all that can be done by a creature: Now if you would do more on such a supposition as this, after all those Sermons you have heard of the evil of sin, and now of the great blessedness of the pardon of sin, if you do not do what a creature is able to do, How can you look for pardon of sin in the face of God? and therefore what you would do on any such supposition, do now, though thou shouldest not get pardon; suppose such a thing as if thou wert now ready to be damned, yet is it not better to do it, than not to do it? Having spoken of these general things, I come now more garticularly to the other part of the Question, What is to be done?
Eightly, Do this: so seek after it as to desire if it were possible that you might bring as much glory unto God, as he would have had of you if he should have damn'd you for ever; this is an excellent frame of spirit though you do not know it, but though you do not, yet you should put your selves upon such a kind of work and God may come in; you cry out for pardon, but never cry out for Gods honour, O what shall become of the honour of God that he hath lost by me, and the dishonour I have brought to him, say, O Lord I have dishonoured thy Name, O that I might so honour thy Name as I have dishonoured it; O Lord thou mightest make up thy honour in my eternal damnation; but O Lord, I would if I could do any thing that might make up that dishonour that I have brought by my sin, if I could do any thing that thou mightest have any honour in, I would do it: for a close, I shall put this for a consideration to you; whatsoever you would do upon any supposition, suppose your danger were as great as ever it was in all your lives, what you would do then do it now; you must do all that can be done by a creature: Now if you would do more on such a supposition as this, after all those Sermons you have heard of the evil of sin, and now of the great blessedness of the pardon of sin, if you do not do what a creature is able to do, How can you look for pardon of sin in the face of God? and therefore what you would do on any such supposition, do now, though thou shouldest not get pardon; suppose such a thing as if thou wer't now ready to be damn'd, yet is it not better to do it, than not to do it? Having spoken of these general things, I come now more garticularly to the other part of the Question, What is to be done?