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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.
Of the eight Mystery, God is infinitely Just, and yet infinitely Merciful.
8. The eighth particular is this, that shows pardon of sin is a great mystery, because where-ever God pardons sin, he is infinitely just, and yet infinitely merciful; there is an admirable reconciliation, between Gods Justice and Mercy, which shows it to be a great mystery: There are three great mysteries in Religion, 1. The great mystery of the Trinity, that there should be divers Persons and yet but one God. The second is, that in the Person of Christ there should be two Natures and yet but one Person. And then the third is, the reconciliation of the mercy ⟨p. 19⟩and justice of God in the forgiveness of a sinner. Many people when they seek for pardon of sin, they only think of Gods infinite grace and mercy, but not of his justice: But certainly, who ever he be that comes to be pardoned, God shows himself infinitely just as well as merciful; that he is merciful, that is clear to every one: But how does it appear he is so infinitely just? for that there is a clear Text for it, Rom. 3.26. To declare at this time his righteousness that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus; so that God in the justifying of him that believes in Christ is just as well as merciful.
8. The eighth particular is this, that shews pardon of sin is a great mystery, because where-ever God pardons sin, he is infinitely just, and yet infinitly merciful; there is an admirable reconciliation, between Gods Justice and Mercy, which shews it to be a great mystery: There are three great mysteries in Religion, 1. The great mystery of the Trinity, that there should be divers Persons and yet but one God. The second is, that in the Person of Christ there should be two Natures and yet but one Person. And then the third is, the reconciliation of the mercy