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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.
1Is not this Doctrine a Doctrine of Liberty, If they have knowledge that God when he pardons for what sins are past, and lays in a Pardon for what sins are yet to come; May not People hence take liberty to sin? May not they say, that though they do sin, yet there is a Pardon laid in before hand for them?
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1Here thou speakest as one that understands not the grace of the Gospel that thus objectest, it is another manner of thing than thou art aware of; there is not that malignity in the grace of the Gospel to cause such effects in the hearts of believers. Luther compares sin to Lime, and the law to Water, that makes the Lime hotter; but the grace of the Gospel says he is like to Oil, and Oil will quench Lime, but Water will not; so the Oil of the Gospel will quench the sins of men; and certainly the more there is of the grace of God revealed in the Gospel, the more the lusts remaining in the heart of a believer come to be quenched: this is an evident Argument of the great difference between the mercy of God revealed in the Gospel, and received by faith; and that which is received only in a natural way: you that are unbelievers, and receives the Gospel only in a natural way, your lusts may be nourished, and you may take liberty for wickedness: But if once you come to receive the mercy of God in and through Christ Jesus, then that mercy will be the greatest opposer of thy lusts and sin, as any thing can be in the world; certainly, thou knowest not the work of God in Christ forgiving sin, that reasonest thus; I shall show you plainly, The knowledge of the great work of the Propitiation by Christ, brings the soul into a hatred of all sin, and is no nourisher ⟨p. 23⟩of it, 1 Joh. 1.9. the Apostle speaks of the wonderful grace of God in Christ to us; If we confess our sins, he is not only ready to forgive, but to cleanse us from them: And chap. 2.1. My little children I write unto you that you sin not, that you take not liberty in any sin; they might say, you write these things that we sin not: but we have sinful natures, and so shall certainly fall into sin for all this: Well, for the comfort of Saints, If any man sin, says he, we have an Advocate with the Father; Jesus Christ is presently an Advocate though you sin through ignorance and negligence, and do not renew present acts of faith to sue out a pardon: yet says the Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ is an Advocate with the Father; the Lord Christ stands before the Father pleading, that no evil may befall you for your sin; this is the admirable privilege of the Saints of God, a most blessed privilege they have by the Covenant of Grace;