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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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But may not a pardoned man have these fears, 1or somewhat of the nature of them resting on his spirit after he is pardoned?
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Yea he may, but the ground of them is dispelled and gone;1 it is not the work of Gods Spirit that causes these fears, as it did before, Rom. 8.15. You have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but the Spirit of adoption, whereby ye cry Abba Father; may be you may have some fears, but being justified by faith, you have not again received the spirit of bondage; if hereafter you have any fears of Gods judgments and wrath against you; it is not the spirit of bondage, the Spirit of God that causes these fears, your own selves may mistake the matter; for those that once receive the spirit of bondage, never after receive it; you may have fears through your own mistakes, but not by the Spirit of God, as the spirit of bondage showing us our bondage by our sins, and working terrors on the soul for it, these fears are dispelled; for in our peace with God in the pardon of sin, the matter of enmity between God and the soul is taken away; there is this in it which might have been added in the mysteries: When a Prince pardons a malefactor, he gives him his life, and he is glad, goes away, but the Prince regards him not any more; and possibly he may yet have enmity in his heart against the Prince still: But God when he pardons a sinner, not only is the enmity taken away, but forthwith that soul is brought into the state of infinite friendship, he receives the soul into his very heart; so that there shall be a greater and more intimate love and friendship between his Majesty and that Soul, than ever was between the greatest and dearest friends in ⟨p. 32⟩the world, this is wonderful, and yet this is so; for as when God comes to pardon sin, there is not only taking away the guilt of sin, but the soul is made actually righteous in Justification; so also there is not only a taking away of the enmity between God and the soul that was there before, but he receives the soul into infinite love, and takes him into infinite friendship with himself; Oh the sweetness and blessedness of that mans state whose sins are pardoned! Reconciliation with God follows thereupon, and he takes the soul into his bosom-love. Further upon this there follows two things, Peace in Conscience, and with the Creatures; being justified by faith he hath peace with God, and as the immediate consequence thereof, peace in Conscience and with all the Creatures.