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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 3 › Part 11: Of the eleventh Mystery, God himself purchases the Pardon.
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Of the eleventh Mystery, God himself purchases the Pardon.
11. When God pardons a sinner, he himself is fain to purchase the pardon, and this is different from the manner of pardons among men: A Prince pardons a malefactor, but the Prince himself doth not purchase the pardon; and if one have offended you, you pardon the offender: but you that are offended do not purchase a pardon for the offender; possible some friend may come and purchase a pardon at the Kings hands for an offender, but the King himself doth not purchase it: yet thus it is with God: God doth not pardon any one sin, but it costs God himself dear before he gets it; therefore 'tis not such a slight thing to be pardoned; you must not think to go to God and cry mercy, and that he will pardon […], thus in a natural way God never pardons sin: but it costs God dear, yea that which is more worth than all the world; if that could have done it, God would rather have dissolved Heaven and Earth, than have given that that he did give; What was that? It was the blood of his own Son: God gave him up to death for the sin of mankind, and for the purchasing a pardon for man: But some may say, What need God have purchased a pardon for man? Could he not have forgiven him by his absolute Prerogative? I answer, there was need, because of the satisfaction of Justice, he did purchase it out of the hands of Justice; God was fain to lay down a price to Justice, before he himself could pardon one sin: Justice must be satisfied before he could give out one pardon: Well, take all these together, Christ must be our Surety, take the debt ⟨p. 28⟩upon himself, and suffer as much punishment as we should have done in Hell to all eternity; and to make the soul stand righteous before God, yet this righteousness to be in another; yea, a near union is made between Christ and the Soul: And yet further, 'tis by faith, and yet boasting is excluded; and God is infinitely merciful, and yet infinitely just; and when he pardons one sin, he lays in a pardon for all sin for time to come, justifies the ungodly, pardons sin, yet purchases the pardon: These eleven Meditations about the Pardon of Sin make it appear to be a wonderful work of God; put these together, and then the result according to the point will be clear and full, that, Blessed is that man whose sins are forgiven: And surely if there be such a mysterious and glorious work of God in pardoning sin;