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The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /
The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painful minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughs.The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painfull minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by T.C. for John Wright, 1654
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.
The eleventh joyful sound is, that now being set at liberty by Christ, though thou doest sin not only against the law, but against the Gospel, thy sins against the Gospel shall not have power to root out any habits of grace; but still the grace of the Gospel will uphold the habits of grace in thy soul. It is otherwise with the law, for one offence against the law doth not only root out the habit that is contrary to that offence, but all other habits also: but the grace of the Gospel is such that the habits of grace within us are not touched.
The eleventh joyful sound is, that now being set at liberty by Christ, though thou doest sin not onely against the law, but against the Gospel, thy sins against the Gospel shall not have power to root out any habits of grace; but still the grace of the Gospel will uphold the habits of grace in thy soul. It is otherwise with the law, for one offence against the law doth not onely root out the habit that is contrary to that offence, but all other habits also: but the grace of the Gospel is such that the habits of grace within us are not touched.
The twelfth joyful sound is this: the Gospel is so full of grace that it takes advantage of our misery; this is a good argument of the tenor of the Gospel, Pardon my sin O Lord, for it is great; strange argument of a child of the bond-woman; but a good argument of a child of the free-woman; and tis Gods argument, Gen. 8. 21. I will not destroy the world again, for the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth.
The twelfth joyful sound is this: the Gospel is so full of grace that it takes advantage of our misery; this is a good argument of the tenour of the Gospel, Pardon my sin O Lord, for it is great; strange argument of a childe of the bond-woman; but a good argument of a childe of the free-woman; and tis Gods argument, Gen. 8. 21. I will not destroy the world againe, for the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth.