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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 › Part 2: Of Gods Revealing his Secrets to those whom he Pardons.
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.
verse, I write unto you little Children, because you have known the Father; Oh what an admirable light springs up in the souls of little Children when their sins are pardoned! they come to the knowledge of the Father; and this is the reason why many great and learned men, that are men of excellent understanding in the knowledge of natural things, are not acquainted with the mysteries of godliness, and think but meanly of them; marvel not at it, for the knowledge of the mysteries of godliness, comes in by pardon of sin; when God pardons sin and justifies a soul by faith in Christ, then God opens the Covenant, and all the glorious mysteries of it to such a soul: A Prince reveals not the secrets of State to a Traitor that lies under bolts and chains; but if a Prince please to pardon him, and knock off ⟨p. 35⟩his bolts and chains, and raise him unto favour, bring him into his Privy Chamber, and open his whole heart and all the mysteries of the Kingdom to him, here is a great change; thus does God to poor sinners that he pardons: A soul that lies under the guilt of sin, is just for all the world like unto a Malefactor that lies in a dungeon, that hath bolts and fetters on him; the guilt of sin is like bolts and fetters on thy soul: Well, thou lyest there fast bound; but when God comes in with pardoning mercy, God sends to thee in this dungeon, and knocks off thy bolts by pardon, and not only so, but calls thee into his Privy Chamber, and opens his heart and bosom unto thee, and reveals those things that were kept secret from the beginning of the world: Princes do not always deal so with Malefactors, if they pardon them they think they have done enough for them, they may afterwards go and shift for themselves, they are not called into the Privy Chamber to have the King open his secrets unto them; but it is certainly so to every soul God pardons; he pardons none, but whom he calls into his Privy Chamber, and reveals unto him the great Counsels of his will, and what has been the great thoughts of his heart, for the good of that soul from all eternity; though some souls have more light than others, yet to no soul that is pardoned but God comes in with a great and glorious light; and in respect of the light of Nature, it may be called a glorious light:
verse, I write unto you little Children, because you have known the Father; Oh what an admirable light springs up in the souls of little Children when their sins are pardoned! they come to the knowledge of the Father; and this is the reason why many great and learned men, that are men of excellent understanding in the knowledge of natural things, are not acquainted with the mysteries of godliness, and think but meanly of them; marvel not at it, for the knowledge of the mysteries of godliness, comes in by pardon of sin; when God pardons sin and justifies a soul by faith in Christ, then God opens the Covenant, and all the glorious mysteries of it to such a soul: A Prince reveals not the secrets of State to a Traytor that lies under bolts and chains; but if a Prince please to pardon him, and knock off