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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 4 › Of Peace with God, that Pardon of Sin is an inlet to.
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Of Peace with God, that Pardon of Sin is an inlet to.
1. Peace with God, Rom. 5.1 being justified, that is, pardoned through faith; what follows, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; the ground of our Justification and Reconciliation, it is not our Humiliation, no nor our Sanctification; Observe it, the very bottom and foundation of our Justification and Reconciliation, it is neither of these, (though we ought to be in the use and exercise of them) but pardon of sin is through the free grace of God applied by faith; this is the ground of all our Peace and Reconciliation with God: And thus men and women should seek their peace with God; the main thing they should lay the weight of obtaining peace of God upon, it is the work of faith applying the Righteousness of Christ for pardon, rather than any work of Humiliation or Sanctification by the Spirit of God; yet both these are sweet and comfortable, when we found the bottom and main foundation of all our peace on the free grace of God pardoning our sin, and justifying of us through faith in Christ; Cod does not say, you that are great sinners, stay till you are humbled and are brought to hate sin, and you shall have peace with God: No, you may be much troubled for sin, and may leave it, and reform in many things, and live better lives than before, and yet your peace not made up with God; How then shall it be? thus, being justified by faith, looking up to the free grace of God in Christ for pardon of sin, we come to have peace with God; and this is a great privilege, but if you consider on the other side, a creature not reconciled, cannot look upon the infinite Creator without terror and shakings, and tremblings of spirit; he cannot have any thoughts of God, but he thinks of him as his Enemy; and that all the excellencies of God are working misery and ruin to him, this is a sad thing: But when pardon of ⟨p. 31⟩sin comes, God is reconciled, and all fears and terrors from the Almighty are gone; those fears whereby the soul was afraid, God was secretly working ruin to it, are dispelled; and if any judgment of God come close and near, and befall any in the sight and hearing of a guilty soul, he would be thinking God is coming to me next: But a justified soul may say, though the judgments of God be never so terrible in the world, and in the Word, which before terrified my Conscience;