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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

for one sin but how have these sinned against thy pardoning mercy that has been offered to them again and again which was never offered us Fourthly I might shew you the evil the Scripture says of it take two or three Texts Joh. 3.18 19. He that believeth not is condemned already and vers ult He that believeth not the wrath of God abideth on him it sticks fast upon such a one and that place in Heb. 10.29 If they that sinned under Moses Law died without mercy who had but little of this grace revealed unto them How much sorer punishment shall they have that sin under the Gospel under the full revelation of this grace but to conclude all there is nothing will be such an aggravation of thy torments in Hell as these Sermons of Gods pardoning mercy if thou go on in sin When we speak of the pardoning grace of God we cannot do it without trembling hearts Why Because we know God will be exceeding quick with those that have the grace of the Gospel preacht unto them And therefore when we come upon this argument we cannot but do as a Physitian that is giving his Patient a Potion that is of mighty operation that will either cure him or dispatch him suddenly if it cure not A Physitian cannot but come with a trembling hand with such a Potion when he knows it must work one way or other we know God is exceeding quick with those to whom he reveals his pardoning mercy in the preaching of the Gospel and those truths we preach will have a quick operation either to bring you out of your sins to Salvation or else they will quickly dispatch you for condemnation Mark 16.15 16. Go says Christ and preach the Gospel to every creature and he that believes shall be saved and he that believes not shall be damned As if Christ had said go open the Doctrine of the Gospel and the Justification of a sinner by the freeness of the grace of God through Christ Jesus and whosoever will come in and believe and close with it shall be saved but he that believes not shall be damned there is no trifling in the business he that believes and comes in shall be saved but he that believes not shall perish he shall be damned let people know when they have the Gospel preach't unto them there is no trifling no dallying with it 't is not to be put off he that comes in shall be saved but he that stands off shall perish shall be damned and shall know that I will fetch up my glory from him another day in another way as if Christ had said Go preach make quick work of it either come in and be saved or stand out and perish And so John when he came to preach the Doctrine of forgiveness of sin Matth. 3.10 says Now the Axe is laid to the root of the tree every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire Now also the Axe is laid to the root of the tree Why not before No all that while they went on in Ignorance and understood not sin and the grace of God brought unto them for the pardon of their sin all that while God let them grow though they bore no fruit or but ill fruit but now also the Axe is laid to the root If he bears not good fruit now he is hewn down and cast into the fire Now when you hear of pardon of sin and grace revealed in the Gospel either you bring forth fruit or you do not if you do not God is peremptory if you come in and imbrace the Gospel you shall be saved but if you do not the Axe is laid unto your root to cut you down the Gospel makes quick work with you as Paul says in 2 Cor. 2.14 it is so strong that it kills with the very savour of it it has such a savour as it can kill with the very smell of it To him that believes it is the savour of life unto life but to him that believes not it is the savour of death unto death Act 17.30 In the times of Ignorance God winked when men understood not what the evil of sin was but now he commands all men to repent before you heard the dreadful evil and malignity that is in sin God might wink at you but now he commands you all having heard so many Sermons of the evil nature of sin to repent or else God will be very quick with you Heb. 4.12 an excellent place The Word of God is quick and powerful but what word is it mark in the 2d verse Unto us says he was the Gospel preached It was the Word of the Gospel and vers 8. If Jesus had given them rest It is that rest spoken of in the Gospel and mark what he says in the beginning Let us therefore fear least a Promise being left of entering into rest any of you should seem to come short of it Let us therefore fear for the Word of God is swift and will make quick dispatch No Sermons make such quick dispatch as Sermons of the Gospel fear least any seem to come short let us fear least any of us should go on in any way that makes it seem to appear we reject the Gospel It is very observable what we find in Gods dealings with Israel of old we never find God swearing against them till they rejected the Land of Canaan and preferr'd Egypt before it when the Spies were sent forth to search the Land and brought some of the Grapes of it Numb 13 14. Chapters and told them what an excellent fruitful Land it was but because of some difficulty in the getting of it they fell a murmuring then God took up a solemn Oath they should not enter into it though they had provoked him ten times yea forty years in the Wilderness yet God never sware against them till that time That soul is in a sad condition that God shall swear in his wrath it shall not enter into his rest Thou that walkest in the Wilderness of thy sins and hast thy heart hardned against all the Truths of God But now if God has come in to thee and opened Canaan and brought you any clusters of those Grapes revealed the mysteries of the Gospel and pardoning grace through Christ If you now hang off and be longing after the Onions and Garlick of Egypt fear and tremble least God should swear you should never enter into rest you that are wicked unclean persons that went on in sin though you had some light of Nature that caused Conscience to check you yet God was patient and your condition was not so dangerous then But now after the hearing of this grace of the Gospel and pardoning mercy a Drunkard an unclean person or a vile liver now is in a thousand times of more danger least God should swear against him now than before Take heed in every act of the renewal of thy sin thou art in