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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.
CHAP. IV. That Pardon of Sin not only is a Mercy in it self, but the Foundation of many other Mercies.
1Pardon of Sin makes a m•• blessed; Why? Because it is the Foundation of abundance of other Mercies; it is an inlet to many other mercies, therefore a great mercy; it is a leading mercy, it is as the Queen of Mercy, that hath a great and glorious train of other mercies attending on her; indeed, it is the very foundation of all the mercies of the Covenant of grace, 'tis the principal mercy, and the very foundation of all the mercies that are in the Covenant, and the inlet and opening to them all; the Covenant of Grace is a rich Treasury, hath abundant store of mercy in it, and this opens to them all: The current of all Gods mercies was stopped by mans sin; though God had an infinite Ocean of mercy, yet the source and vent of all Gods mercies was stopped. Now, when God pardons sin, he takes away the stop, and opens the sluice, that his infinite grace and ⟨p. 29⟩goodness may flow forth plentifully and sweetly to the soul, body and state; yea to all that belongs to a believer: You may conceive Gods mercy to be as an infinite stream of goodness, running with a full current towards his creatures; for God delights in the Communication of himself to his creatures: But now mans sin made a dam, and stopped the pipe, that not one drop of mercy could come forth, not a drop of all that mercy that in the eternal purpose of God he hath appointed in time shall come forth to such and such a poor creature; but when he comes to Pardon and Justification, he pulls out the plug, and pulls up the flood-gates and sluices, and then mercies come flowing in amain; when sin is pardoned, then the full streams of all the mercies in the Covenant of grace come flowing into the soul; well then, if it be thus, that pardon of sin is an inlet to other mercies; then he that hath his sin pardoned is a very blessed man. I shall open this, That Pardon of Sin is the foundation to, and opens the sluice to let in all other mercies,