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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
Gospel Remission. › Chapter 20: Of Encouragements to seek after Pardon of Sin.
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Fourthly, The end why God continues this world in being, is that he might give pardon to his Elect; certainly this world had been dissolved long ago, if it were not that he might bring pardon to his Elect, and to those that see their sins; this must needs be a great encouragement to a soul, viz. to those that see their sins, to come in; when this pardoning work is done, Christ will deliver up his Kingdom to his Father; if a malefactor should come to sue out his pardon, and one should say unto him, 'tis well Sir you are come, for the King would not have kept his Court so long here, but that you should come in; were not this a great encouragement? so say I, were it not that men should come to get the pardon of their sins, the Court of the world would have been broken up long before this time,
Fourthly, The end why God continues this world in being, is that he might give pardon to his Elect; certainly this world had been dissolved long ago, if it were not that he might bring pardon to his Elect, and to those that see their sins; this must needs be a great incouragement to a soul, viz. to those that see their sins, to come in; when this pardoning work is done, Christ will deliver up his Kingdom to his Father; if a malefactor should come to sue out his pardon, and one should say unto him, 'tis well Sir you are come, for the King would not have kept his Court so long here, but that you should come in; were not this a great incouragement? so say I, were it not that men should come to get the pardon of their sins, the Court of the world would have been broken up long before this time,
Fifthly, The principal scope of the Scriptures is for this very end, to reveal the pardoning grace of God; you have here the heart of God laid open; Christ wept and mourned that sinners would not come in, that they might be pardoned and saved.1 I have read a story, that in Athens there was a Temple, and in that there was a woman weeping, and in one hand she had a bleeding Heart, and with the other she was writing Pardons; so Christ he stands weeping over you, that you will not come in, and he hath a bleeding heart, bleeding for you in the one hand, and with the other hand he is ready to write you a pardon,