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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

danger least God in his wrath swear against thee that thou shalt never enter into rest Well If the case be so then you may say What shall we do that we might not dishonour this sweet and precious grace but that we might honour God in it Is this the frame of thy heart to be careful above all things in the world that thou mightest not dishonour this precious grace Does thy heart work thus Lord whatever I have been heretofore though I have been a negligent vile wretch yet for time to come it shall be the work of my soul to give up my self unto whatever God shall speak unto me that I may not dishonour God Is this the frame of thy spirit The Lord keep it so Now that I might direct you in this great Point I shall 1. shew who they are that are pardoned for that will be a foundation for direction and then 2ly shew you what you ought to do to get it what we are to put you upon if you find not Evidence of it And then 3ly What is to be done for the honouring of the grace of God by those that have some comfortable Evidence of it CHAP. XVI Of the several Mistakes of Men about the Pardon of their Sins OUr work now is to shew who they are that have their sins pardoned for there is nothing in all the world so much concerns us as to know how things stand with us in relation to God and our souls whether we be pardoned or no for a mistake in this is a wonderful mistake and yet how many thousands are there that venture the weight of this great business upon poor weak and slight grounds yea rather on meer suggestions of their own hearts and therefore we must first labour to convince men of their mistakes about pardon of sin and then lay down some sound Evidences of pardon in which there may be true and solid peace People are exceeding apt to mistake in point of pardon of sin hoping that God has pardoned them and that they shall not be laid to their charge but upon very slight grounds that will deceive them And therefore I desire this day you would look upon your selves as arraign'd before the great God as one day you must be And let your hearts so hear and attend to what we deliver as if God should speak to you and say Thou sinner such and such things thou art privy to and hast been guilty of What can'st thou say why the sentence of everlasting death should not be past upon thee why God should not declare against thee according to his Law I suppose scarce any of you but have some hope that God will never proceed against you according to his Law for indeed if he do you are undone for ever But what are the grounds of your hopes why you think God will not proceed against you for your sins but will pass them by and forgive you let us a little examine the grounds of it for it is of very great Consequence and certainly many people are now sunk down into the bottomless pit of Hell by resting upon false grounds I shall labour to discover the weakness of their standing that rest on false grounds the First Is this many think that God has pardoned their sin because it is but little they have been guilty of and for that they think there is a pardon in course were I guilty of such horrible wickedness and notorious sins as many others are then I think it would go hard with me I should be affraid things between God and me were very grievous but the sins I have been guilty of are no such great sins I hope God will pass them by God forbid I should think he were so strickt as not to pass by such small sins as those that I have been guilty of For answer to this 1 Know thou dost not understand what the evil and malignity of sin means If thou thinkst the least sin does not make such a breach between God and thee as all created power in Heaven and Earth can never make up again if you do not beleive that all those Sermons preacht unto you about the evil of sin are lost unto you But know as a little Pen-knife may stabb you to death as truly as a gash of the greatest Sword and a little shot out of a Pistol may kill you as well as a Canon bullet So a little sin may prove your eternal ruine as well as a great one and therefore that is no argument that God hath past by your sins because they are little ones and for that consider this one thing I am further speaking of 2. Gods pardoning mercy is his own to do with it what he pleases and therefore that God may shew his prerogative he will sometimes to some pardon their great sins and others he will damn for little sins you think your sins are not so great as other mens and therefore you think that God will forgive you do not deceive your selves with this God will do with his mercy what he pleases What if he will pardon the most notorious gross sins in others and damn thee for thy sins in thoughts what if he will pardon the most notorious uncleanness and murder in another and damn thee for a wanton thought he may do it for his mercy is his own For this take the example of David and Saul compared together David committed many sins but especially those two of Adultery and Murder and yet God pardoned him but Saul committed far less sins then those and yet God cast him off for ever the things on which God laid the casting off of Saul were these two sins 1. He did not stay till Samuel came when Samuel had appointed a time to come he deferr'd it to the last minute and Saul was in a great strait he tarry'd for him long and he thought he must not go to war except he offer'd Sacrifice before and he ventured to offer it himself and did not stay out the full time he staid so long till he thought that Samuel would not come and then that he did was but to offer Sacrifice to God and yet God laies this very thing unto his charge as a cause why he would cast him off 1 Sam. 13.13 Samuel tells him that God had thought to establish the Kingdom for ever unto him But now he will not you are gone Saul for this sin the 2. sin in Scripture on which God layes his casting off upon is this God sent him against the Amalekites and bad him destroy all but he spar'd the fat of the flock and the King Now the sparing of the fat of the flock was done out of a good intention he professes it was that the People might have of the fattest to offer in Sacrifice to God a good intention and yet for this God tells him that he would rend the Kingdom from him for that thing 1 Sam. 15.28 True it is that though