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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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Eighthly, Consider that, that God thou hast to deal withal, his nature is mercy in the abstract; and if so, he is free in his mercy; as the Sun shines, because it's the nature of it to shine; so the mercy of God must needs work freely, because it is his nature; as the fire burns naturally, Exod. 34. & Mic. 7.18. God pardons because he delights in mercy; thou sayest thou art a poor sinner; well, though it be so, yet thou mayst say, though God can see nothing in me, yet seeing that he is a God that delights in mercy, this may move me to come in: For
Eighthly, Consider that, that God thou hast to deal withal, his nature is mercy in the abstract; and if so, he is free in his mercy; as the Sun shines, because it's the nature of it to shine; so the mercy of God must needs work freely, because it is his nature; as the fire burns naturally, Exod. 34. & Mic. 7.18. God pardons because he delights in mercy; thou say'st thou art a poor sinner; well, though it be so, yet thou may'st say, though God can see nothing in me, yet seeing that he is a God that delights in mercy, this may move me to come in: For
1. He hath more delight in pardoning any sinner than in all the creatures of Heaven and Earth; God delights in all the ⟨p. 218⟩works of his hands; but in this he delights in more than in all; he delights in them all, but not so much as in magnifying his grace in Jesus Christ; for in this he magnifies his Son, and therefore he hath more pleasure, and takes more delight in pardoning a poor humbled sinner, than in all the works of his hands besides.