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A30582	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.]	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.	1668 (1668)	Wing B6081; ESTC R4316	194,926	239

has pardoned thy sin and delivered thee from death and n●w my soul return unto thy rest the word translated rest in the Original is plural return unto thy rests there are rests enough for a soul whom God hath delivered and pardoned all afflictions to him are but as the Viper on Paul's hand that he may shake off they will do him no hurt the sting of death is sin and the sting of afflictions is that they are the beginners of death but to one that has his sin taken away the property of affliction is altered they come not as acts of revenging Justice but as effects of Love and Mercy the Principle from whence they come and the end to which they tend is differenced from what it was before when Trespasses are forgiven Deliverance from Evil will follow after as it is in the Lords Prayer true as you heard before in the former point If once we come to have afflictions as the fruits of sin then they are heavy and grievous indeed in this case when affliction comes for sin and sin comes to prey upon a man in time of affliction it is just as a Bayliffe set on by a cruel Creditor that comes to a poor man in debt and he lies sick the Bayliffe takes away his Stools Table Bed and Pillow and all he hath to help and comfort him leaves him not a Pillow to rest his weary head upon so when a sinner lies sick and under affliction guilt of sin comes and takes away all thy comforts if thou hast any Promise as a Pillow to rest thy head upon guilt of sin will take it away guilt of sin pulls and tears away every comfort and every good that sinners should have to refresh themselves withal in affliction But when the guilt of sin is gone thou may'st lay thy head down in quiet and rest upon a Promise and it will make affliction very easie that thou shalt have no cause to make complaint as formerly thou had'st Isai 33. ult The Inhabitant shall not say I am sick mark the ground of it for the People that dwell therein shall be forgiven their Iniquity when God comes to bestow this great mercy of pardon the Inhabitants shall not make such dolorous complaints of affliction and trouble upon them says Luther strike Lord strike for I am absolved from my sin if once God has absolved thee or any poor creature from their sin it is not in the power of any affliction to disturb them Job 34.29 When he gives quietness who can give trouble and when he hides his face who then can behold him when God gives quietness as he doth in forgiveness of sin then who can make trouble let there be never so many rumors in the world of war bloud and miseries as if Heaven and Earth met together yet if God give quietness to the heart in assurance of forgiveness of sin who can bring trouble it is not in the power of all the world to disturb his s●ul whose sins are forgiven Pardon of sin is that peace the world cannot take away therefore blessed is the man that hath his sins pardoned Of Healing the fruit of Pardoning Mercy 5. Where God pardons sin he heals that soul and sanctifies it by the immediate fruits of the Spirit wheresoever it is and this is a great blessedness who is there that understands the evil of sin that sees not this a great blessedness not only to be delivered from the guilt of sin but also from the uncleanness of sin too and that Sanctification or freedom from the power and slavery that there is under the bondage of sin is a fruit of forgiveness of sin will appear by divers Texts of Scripture I shall not speak to all but only some that make this blessing to be the consequence or immediate fruits that slow in upon forgiveness Jer. 31.33 34 there God promises to put his law into our inward parts But what 's the ground of it in the 34. verse I will forgive their iniquities and remember their sins no more the writing of Gods Law in our inward parts delivering us from the power of sin and sanctifying our hearts comes in as a fruit of Gods forgiving us our iniquities Rom. 6.14 Sin shall not have dominion over you why because you are not under the Law but under Grace Now this is the great grace of the Gospel forgiveness of sin you are under that and therefore it is that sin cannot have dominion over you as if the Apostle had said you may resolve against sin and do what you can to oppose it and strive as much as possible you are able to subdue it yet so long as you remain under the law sin will certainly have dominion over you and you will be under the slavery of it until you come under the grace of the Gospel and partake of that Col. 2.13 ult And you hath he quickned together with him having forgiven you all trespasses so that quickning and Sanctification is a fruit of forgiving of all their trespasses 1 Cor. 15.56 57. The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be to God that giveth us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ the strength of sin is the law Gods Justice in the Law giving men up unto sin there lies the strength of sin But now God through Christ coming to men in the grace of the Gospel there comes deliverance from the strength of sin perhaps some of you have lain under the burden and power of sin and you have thought the only way to get victory hath been to resolve and strive against it and you have done so and yet you cannot get power over your sins I remember one writing to Luther tells him that he had vow'd and covenanted against his sin and yet his sin prevail'd against him until he understood the grace of the Gospel and so may be have you done and yet your sin prevails because you take not this course try the work of faith in point of Justification renew your faith in God for the forgiveness of your sin through Jesus Christ that 's the ready way try that course you that have been tired in labouring against corruption you have resolv'd and pray'd and shed tears and yet that will not do try this way renew your faith dayly in point of Justification by laying hold of the infinite riches of the grace of Christ in the Gospel for pardon for healing power to come in to help you against that which holds you and this will not hinder your duties you may pray resolve and fast as much as before but be sure your great care be to renew your faith in point of Justification and there will come more healing power by that in your souls than by any thing else if once you can touch Christ the bloody issues of your sins that run before come to be dryed up which you could not dry up though you spent your time

God promised to make all his goodness pass before him and Exod. 34.6 he proclaimed The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands and then to the point in hand forgiving iniquity transgression and sin here 's the glory of God Would you have a demonstration indeed that Gods heart was set upon this as the greatest work that ever was done take it in this that the very thoughts of effecting this by the death of his own Son made God very well pleas'd and delighted with his death surely then his heart was much set upon it for rather than he would not effect it he would part with his own Son Never was there such a hideous thing as the death of the Son of God and therefore if there were any delight to be taken in it that God the Father took delight in it there must be some great thing to sweeten it such an horrid thing as the death of the Son of God had need have some great thing to sweeten it what now sweetned this to God the Father that his own Son should be put to death Why nothing but this that hereby sinners might come to be redeemed justified and pardoned nothing else would sweeten it to God the Father but this does Isai 53.10 It pleased the Lord to bruise him and again the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand the Scripture says God takes no delight in the death of a sinner and yet God did take delight in the death of his Son it pleased God to see his Son bruised when God the Father saw his Son under his wrath swetting drops of water and blood under the curse of the Law it pleased God well certainly then there must be some mighty thing that must sweeten this and make the death of his own Son a delightful object to him Why the very thing that did it was this that Christ being made a curse he thereby did redeem us from the curse procur'd the pardon of our sins and reconciled us unto God and this very thing sweetned the death of the Son of God unto God the Father therefore the heart of God was much in it 2. For Christ What was the business that brought him from the Fathers bosome made him content to take our nature upon him to suffer and to be a man of sorrows so as to delight in it there was a kind of delight to Christ in induring the wrath of God for with desire says Christ have I desired to eat this Passover because it was the Preparation to his Death and Sufferings of the wrath of God in all the fruits and effects of it for the sin of Man and when Christ came to institute the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and to give his blood for the remission of sins the Text says He gave thanks What did he give thanks for surely the thing for which he gave thanks for upon which the Supper of the Lord is called the Eucharist from the Greek word that signifies Thanksgiving was this that by his death Remission of sins should be obtain'd when Christ was to die suffer all the wrath of God that was due for our sins Christ blessed God thanked God the Father for it surely there must be some great matter to sweeten it that he should be so affected as to bless God the Father for that that cost him his life and yet he did Mark what it is that satisfies Christ for all this Isa 53.10 It pleased the Lord to bruise him and his soul was made an offering for sin all was laid upon Christ Well but what did Christ look for for all this Vers 11. He shall see of the travel of his soul and shall be satisfied that that shall satisfie Christ for all his pains labour and sufferings shall be to see of the travel of his soul What is that What is the travel of Christs soul What Why by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justifie many as if Christ had said this is the very thing my Soul travels for in all that I have done or suffered in all my life that I might but bring this great business to pass to justifie some souls to get the sin of those poor souls that are thine Elect pardoned and their persons justified this my soul travels for and oh Father let me but see this the travel of my Soul and I am satisfied Christ accounted it worth all the travel of his Soul in all he did and suffered that he might justifie some souls as if he had said he would have no other boon from his Father but only this Father if thou wilt but recompence all my travel with this I shall for ever account my self that I am satisfied and have enough How should we be satified with Christ when Christ accounts the pardon of our sins satisfaction enough Shall Christ say notwithstanding all my sorrows let thy sin be pardoned and I have enough Wilt not thou now say and let me have Christ and I have enough Christ says to God the Father let me have those souls pardoned and I have enough Oh then do thou say let me have Christ and I have enough Surely Christ is enough to satisfie thee when the pardon of thy sin is enough to satisfie him 3. As the heart of God and Christ so the heart of the Holy Ghost is in this business too the great work the Holy Ghost hath to do in this world and the great business for which he was sent it is to convince poor souls of the righteousness there is to be had in Christ for Justification Joh. 16.8 9 10. Christ will send the Comforter and first he will convince the world of sin 2. Of righteousness What is that that is when the Spirit comes he will clear it up unto believers and convince them that the righteousness that they must have to stand righteous before God in is the righteousness of Christ alone and this is a mighty work of the Spirit of God and a work that would never have been done had not he come to have done it it is such a great mystery that we should be righteous by anothers righteousnes that it is above the reason of all Men and Angels all Men and Angels were never able to fathom this infinite depth it is above their apprehensions that ever we should come to be righteous in Christ and very few yet where Christ is made known are convinced of it Those men that take up Religion in a natural way they never are convinc't of the Righteousness of Christ it is a riddle and a mystery to them only those few souls whom God intends eternally to save the Spirit of God is sent unto them from the Father and the Son to clear it unto them that the righteousness wherewith they must stand righteous before God is the Righteousness of Jesus Christ this is the great work of the Spirit of God

to that glorious Name of God that appears in that mercy bestowed on me so if I seek after God for a blessing then I reverence Gods Name when there is such a disposition in my heart that is somewhat suitable to the glorious Name of God that appears in that blessing so in endeavouring to sanctifie Gods Name in seeking after pardon of sin thou dost it then when there is such a frame in thy heart as may hold forth to Men and Angels that this work of thine hath some kind of suitableness to the glorious Name of God that appears in it this is to sanctifie the Name of God and this is a great work this is the great thing for which thou wast made and this is the great thing for which the counsels of God yea the deep counsels of God were set a work from all eternity Now the dispositions of our spirits must be such as may manifest the great end the wisdom and counsels of God had in it and therefore it must be a great work that must manifest that for certainly those whom God pardons he makes them understand what pardon means Now th●n if thy seeking be such as that thou knowest what it is thou seekest after then it must hold forth also that thou dost understand the Name of God is exceeding glorious in it and then as thou doest apprehend this so accordingly thy heart will work after it and therefore when you are alone and you find your hearts working this way say What do I do Do I so call upon him and seek after him as that this work of mine declares to God and my own Conscience I seek for it so as that I may manifest the glorious Name of the great God is in it certainly if I do not do it thus I take Gods Name in vain Sixthly Further you must seek after it as if you were now to answer for all your sins before the Lord as you would wish you had done it then so do it now I put it to every one of you Have you not been on your sick-beds and in your apprehension neer unto death hath not God wakened your Consciences and you have been afraid upon the account of your sins what kind of temper your souls have been in then know it concerns you every day in the whole course of your lives to have the same apprehensions as you had at that time do now as then you would have done certainly thou dost not understand what pardon of sin means if thou dost not seek it thus Seaventhly Do it as thou thinkest in thy Conscience the damned souls in Hell would do if God should give them a possibility What would they do if God should proclaim unto them a possibility of pardon what would they do divers things you may conceive they would do and here it comes up fully to my hand to put you upon it ●o say O! what shall I do Were we to preach to them in Hell do you think that there is any one of them but would mightily cry to the God of Heaven 't is not like that any one of such an Auditory but would mightily cry to God if the great counsels of God concerning pardon of sin were preacht to them and will not every one of you now mightily cry to God for it certainly if they would do it in Hell Why should not you do it now that which you think they would do not with a few slight vain expressions do you do now with all your might Eightly Do this so seek after it as to desire if it were possible that you might bring as much glory unto God as he would have had of you if he should have damn'd you for ever this is an excellent frame of spirit though you do not know it but though you do not yet you should put your selves upon such a kind of work and God may come in you cry out for pardon but never cry out for Gods honour O what shall become of the honour of God that he hath lost by me and the dishonour I have brought to him say O Lord I have dishonoured thy Name O that I might so honour thy Name as I have dishonoured it O Lord thou mightest make up thy honour in my eternal damnation but O Lord I would if I could do any thing that might make up that dishonour that I have brought by my sin if I could do any thing that thou mightest have any honour in I would do it for a close I shall put this for a consideration to you whatsoever you would do upon any supposition suppose your danger were as great as ever it was in all your lives what you would do then do it now you must do all that can be done by a creature Now if you would do more on such a supposition as this after all those Sermons you have heard of the evil of sin and now of the great blessedness of the pardon of sin if you do not do what a creature is able to do How can you look for pardon of sin in the face of God and therefore what you would do on any such supposition do now though thou shouldest not get pardon suppose such a thing as if thou wer 't now ready to be damn'd yet is it not better to do it than not to do it Having spoken of these general things I come now more garticularly to the other part of the Question What is to be done First This is to be done be sure thou takest off thy heart from all other imaginary blessedness certainly there is no man in the world but hath somewhat else his heart was running out after now thou must get off thy heart from that thing whatever it be it may be thy heart was set upon friends or upon pleasures of the flesh and thou thoughtest thy self happy the more thou had'st liberty for thy lust and the like now thou must be convinc't that thou hast fed upon ashes and hast not been able to say there is a lie in my right hand but God hath now shewed me there is a lie and I have look't for happiness else where but now I see it is not there to be found win thy soul fully to this O my soul art thou taken off from all other things hath God convinc't thee that thou may'st have honours riches pleasures and yet be a Reprobate wo unto me for the time that I have lost I have laid out my time and mony for another blessedness that is no where to be found but in the grace of God Secondly Let Conscience have free liberty to shew thee thy sins and charge them upon thee yea to accuse and condemn thee and do thou help thy Conscience when Conscience accuses and condemns then do thou condemn thy self if thou would'st be pardoned then give Conscience scope and liberty 't is very dangerous when God begins to stir the hearts of men and women to make any stop or give any

your days sleeping in security your damnation sleeps and slumbers not and until your sin be pardoned the infinite justice of God is working your doom for the full satisfaction of it that is the first thing they dishonour God that go on in secure courses without minding such a great thing as the pardon of sin is Secondly Others dishonour God who in stead of making it their great business in this world to get their sin pardoned they make it their great work to increase the guilt of sin by heaping up more and more guilt and so make the flame greater and add to it continually you would think it a very unreasonable and desperate thing in a man that being condemn'd to some grievous and dreadful death yet there being a pardon propounded and some possibility of it and a friend for this very end get a Reprieval of the King for two or three days that he might have time to sue out his Pardon suppose such a thing Now then if this man in this time of Reprieval that is given for this very end to seek a Pardon should call for good cheer and musick merriment and sporting and not only so but fall into railing against the Prince increase his guilt and provoke the Prince more and more against him Would not every man say this man is worthy of the greatest extream tormentingest death that could be devised Nay I suppose should you hear of such an one condemn'd to die and had his life given him for this very end you would think surely this man will spend these days in another manner than ever he spent his time before you that would think so of such a man it may be some of you before the Lord this day are guilty of the same evil for this is a certain truth that all the men in the world have been condemn'd to eternal death and all the time of your life is given you for this very end a few days that God gives you for this very purpose meerly that you might have a little liberty to sue out your pardon and make up your peace with God O that men and women would but understand this what they live for that all the time of their lives is given them to make up their peace with God you are to know it is given for this end meerly as a Malefactor hath a Reprieve to get his Pardon this is your very condition you stand before the Lord guilty of eternal death but God in his patience and long-sufferance gives you a few days to live to sue out your Pardon and if you let this time slip and these days be gone I profess to you this day before the Lord that mercy it self shall never save you I would but know of many of you how you spend these days you are not certain of one day it may be not an hour Do you spend these days in making it the great business and work of your Souls to sue out a Pardon Let me speak to you and O that you would speak it in secret between God and your own Souls and that you would answer in the Name of God every soul present to this Question Soul hast thou made it the great work and business of thy life above all things in the world to sue out thy Pardon and seek for Reconciliation with thy God and a discharge of thy sins I verily fear that many of you that hear me this day if we could but hear Conscience speak would answer What I make it the great work and business of my life to sue out a Pardon God knows it hath been the great work and business of my life to increase my guilt there is not a day goes over my head but I have brought more guilt upon my self by wicked Oaths taking Gods Name in vain neglecting his Worship abusing of his creatures perhaps by drunkenness or uncleanness methinks your Consciences might misgive you when you are so far from making it the great business of your lives to sue for pardon that you make it your great work to encrease your guilt Dost thou think ever to get pardon of thy sin so long as thou goest on to encrease thy guilt and make thy self more vile the lives of many people are such in a course of wickedness that it bespeaks them that either they are resolved to perish eternally in their sin or else to make it to be as great a burden to the mercy of God as can be in the pardoning of their sin if it be so mighty a work of God to pardon sin observe what I say it follows from the point wherein I opened the wonderful work of God in pardoning any one sin think thus Is it so great a work of God to pardon one sin Shall I go on then to add sin unto sin to make the work greater Friend if God pardon but one sin in thought that thou hast been guilty of in all thy life it would be a work that would yield thee matter of praise to all eternity and wilt thou be so desperate then as to add sin unto sin As suppose a man had some grievous disease and it would be the strangest work to cure him that ever was wrought since the Earth and Heavens were made if this man should go on by intemperate courses to increase the malignity and venom of it day by day more and more what a desperate thing would this be esteemed in him especially if he were in a possibility of cure yea and perhaps he could tell others that there is some possibility and yet he goes on to encrease the malignity more and more how would every one think this mans courses unreasonable O that we would consider of the unreasonableness of the dealings of men with God men are ashamed to be unreasonable in their dealings with men but in their dealings with God they are as unreasonable as can be imagined you are guilty of many sins have you hope to be forgiven yes you will say you have hope have you hope if God deliver you from any of your sins he must do such a work as is greater than the making of Heaven and Earth what do you then to encrease your sin when it is so great a work to pardon your sin O! the horrible wickedness of men and women to increase their sin Josh 22.17 I may allude unto it and it is an argument of great force Is the iniquity of Peor too little from which we are not cleansed to this day so I may say to sinners going on in their sins Is the iniquity of Peor too little from which you are not cleansed to this day What is the iniquity of your youth too little that you committed and mispent your time when you were Prentice or lived in such and such a family Is that sin too little to magnifie the grace of God in pardoning of it but that you must add more and more unto it as if you would tempt God

great vanity of men and women that look after pardon of sin but 't is only at such times as God takes away all other comforts from them as thus they think to satisfie themselves with the creatures while they can enjoy them while they can go up and down amongst friends eat good chear and have all coming in but when God takes away all these as on a sick-bed then they will cry for pardon Oh mercy Lord oh mercy I am a wretched miserable sinner oh mercy Well now you would have mercy Why now and not before before you had other things and you quieted your hearts with them and why not now were not they mercies but I know not whether they were out of love or hatred Well yet you quieted your hearts with them and now they are all going Do you now think it a fit time to cry for mercy Oh how infinitely wast thou mistaken that thou did'st not cry for mercy before thou think'st it now a fit time to cry for mercy why thou had'st no mercy that thou could'st take the comfort of as a mercy unless thy sins were pardoned and therefore thou hast now cause to cry for pardon when sickness comes and God takes away this and the other mercy thou think'st thou art left naked if you knew all you are naked now and therefore would you live a comfortable life in this world and have your House Estate and all Relations mercies to you never be at rest till you have got your sins pardoned and forgiven this considered might be a mighty argument and means to draw the hearts of men to get pardon that all their outward things might be sweetned to them 2. If all outward good be not a mercy unless sin be pardoned then what good wilt thou or any one get by the increase of sin thou think'st it to be a good Why all thou hast now is not a good is not a mercy and dost thou think to get good by the increase of sin when a temptation comes to draw thee to sin think thus I have heard this day that all I have is not a mercy unless my sin be pardoned and therefore I can never get any mercy by the increase of sin Certainly did men and women understand themselves they would easily answer the Devil by this kind of reasoning Of Pardon of Sin making all afflictions easie to be born Where-ever sin is pardoned there follows this that any thing that befals that man or woman is very easie to be born an easie matter it is for any one that hath his sin pardoned to bear any affliction and this is a great blessedness or rather take it thus That either such a one may be assured that afflictions shall be removed or otherwise made easie to be born for pardon of sin delivers us from abundance of afflictions that otherwise might befal us in this world though it is true God lays many afflictions on his people after their sins are forgiven yet it is more than they know but that if their sins had not bin forgiven they might have had other manner of miseries than they do now meet withal perhaps you meet with some now and more than you did before but for ought you know those miseries you meet with now might have been seven-fold more than now they are and another manner of wrath than you now think of Isai 40.2 Cry her warfare is accomplished for her iniquity is pardoned where iniquity is pardoned there warfare is accomplished if afflictions be not quite removed yet they are made very easie to be born and that upon two grounds First Because the greatness of the good that there is in pardon of sin makes the bitterest and saddest evil that there is in affliction to be as nothing as to instance suppose a Malefactor that is condemn'd to some greivous and hideous death should have a friend at Court to sue for pardon or he comes up up to get pardon Well he comes and is admitted to come into the Kings Presence and he receives him graciously pardons him freely quits him fully of all his guilt and puts him fully out of all the danger he was in perhaps as he is coming from the King he loses his Glove or Handkerchief Would not that be an unseemly thing for a man that after he has got his Pardon yet because he has lost his Glove should whine and wring his hands because of the loss of his Glove would not that be an unreasonable thing Certainly there is as much unreasonableness for any man or woman that hath the pardon of their sin for them to wring their hands and whine and keep a stir as though they were undone because they are afflicted For the greatest affliction that can befal any in this world compared with the good of pardon of sin is not so much as the loss of a Glove for the saving of any mans life by the Kings Pardon though your afflictions may be more than the loss of a Glove yet your pardon of sin is greater than any Kings pardon in the world put these together and know hereby thy unreasonableness and when to check thy self having any assurance of pardon of sin that thou should'st be so troubled at any affliction and have so much good from God in the pardon of thy sin Further for those that are troubled at afflictions I would put this to them either they are pardoned or not pardoned if ye are pardoned why are ye so troubled if ye are not pardoned then you had need to spend the strength of your spirits by waving your grief for afflictions to seek pardon of your sins Secondly Pardon of sin will make afflictions easie because the soul may be assured that the evil of affliction is gone he that has his sin pardoned may be assured that there can nothing befal him in this world but that if he knew all he himself would be willing with all his heart it should be so And is not this a blessed condition for any man while he lives here in this world in which there is abundance of evil yet to be in such a condition as that we shall certainly know that there shall nothing befal us as long as we live in this world but that which if we knew all we our selves would chuse it and account it to be a better condition than any other this is a blessed estate to be in such a condition as this is for God to testifie from Heaven unto us that it shall not be in the power of any creature in the world to do us any hurt for certainly so it is when once a man or woman is justified God does as much as speak from heaven to that poor soul saying Soul now you are safe be certainly assured that there is no creature in all the world can do you any hurt Psal 116.7 thou may'st say as David there Return unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee God