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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

whatever I have or can do shall be his Now put this to your own souls you hope your sins are pardoned But hath God brought you into the Bonds of the Covenant Hath God ingaged himself to you by his Word to be your God and on the other side Are your hearts ingaged to him by the strongest Bonds that can be and if there be any other Bonds that are stronger to tye your souls to God Can your souls say the Lord knows I am content and willing to be ingaged and that you will account it your happiness to be tyed in the strongest Bonds that can be if it be so with thee Now peace be to thy soul thy sins are pardoned as on the one side God hath made a Covenant with thee so on the other side he hath brought thee to be in Covenant with him then be of good comfort thy sins are pardoned Thirdly Those whose sins God hath pardoned he hath translated them into the Kingdom of his Son the Scriptures express these things divers ways and they have a diverse consideration in them Now I ground this note out of Col. 1 13 14. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son mark what follows In whom we have Redemption through his Blood the forgiveness of sins forgiveness of sin is the end of Gods translating of us into the Kingdom of his dear Son in giving Redemption through his Blood even the forgiveness of sin so that whosoever God hath given Redemption to through the Blood of Christ even the forgiveness of sin that is forgiveness of sin being the special part of the Redemption we have by the blood of Christ such an one is translated into the Kingdom of the dear Son of God What is that you will say 1. This notes a great change that there must be upon those that are pardoned because the Scripture expresses it thus they are translated into another Kingdom a Kingdom of the Son of God the dear Son of God it is dear mercy of God that translates a soul into the Kingdom of his dear Son it seems naturally we are in another Kingdom and have another King besides the Son of God and have another Soveraign 't is certain we are so naturally we are under the power of Satan and in his Kingdom but now when God comes to redeem a soul and grant forgiveness of sin he translates out of that Kingdom and such a soul refuses to be a subject to Satan any longer or a servant to his lust any longer but now Christ shall be my King the Son of God by whom I expect Reconciliation he shall be my King and his Laws shall rule in my heart and his Scepter shall sway in my soul now no more shall my own thoughts counsels opinions will and affections rule me but Jesus Christ shall be set up upon the throne of my soul and he shall be my King I before was led a poor vile ignorant wretch by the customs of others and example of others and what they required of me by their laws in the matters of his worship but now Christ shall be my King I will expect my law from him and all obedience I do to man it shall be in order to this Christ my King this is a translation into the Kingdom of God when the soul feels the power of Christ ruling in him and overswaying him and the soul looks up to Christ for its protection and provision and desires above all things in the world to set up Jesus Christ as his King in all the ways of his Government both in his own heart and the world too and longs to hear that voyce when it shall be said The Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and Saviour J●sus Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever Thus those that have redempt on through the blood of Christ even the forgiveness of sins they are translated into the Kingdom of his dear Son and as the Scripture speaks They have the Kingdom of God within them that is an expression of the Holy Ghost in the Gospel Now this you are to examine your hearts upon What of the Kingdom of Christ you have within you Do you live and walk as one that hath the Kingdom of Christ within you Is Christ as King and Soveraign over your thoughts words and actions And do you look to him for the law of your thoughts words and actions and walk before him as your Soveraign Lord depending on him to know his will continually and fear and honour him as a King If the Kingdom of Christ be in you that is if the Gospel have an effectual work upon you for the Gospel in the power of it is ordinarily exprest by the Kingdom of Heaven when the Word comes to any place the Kingdom of Heaven is said to come it would take up a great deal of time to shew wherein the Holy Ghost calls the Gospel the Kingdom of Heaven but it is called the Kingdom of Heaven because it is the Kingdom of Christ that is Lord from Heaven and Christ rules in it by the preaching of the Gospel But now though it be the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingly power of Christ be in the preaching of the Gospel yet this does not prevail upon all sorts it is like a net that is cast into the Sea the meaning of it seems to be nothing else but that the preaching of the Gospel among a multitude of People is like a net cast into the Sea wherein some are catcht and others remain worldly filthy and good for nothing that is the meaning of the Text and not any warrant at all for mixt Communions but only thus where the Preaching of the Gospel is there are some fishes good and worthy to be received and others that are to be cast out Now as there is an external Kingdom so there is an internal Kingdom of Christ within our hearts Jesus Christ himself sets up his Throne in the hearts of every man and woman whose sins are pardoned that is a certain truth and this day in the Name of God I pronounce unto you that if your sin be pardoned Jesus Christ hath set up his Throne in your hearts and if you find any other Throne and Lord but Christ to rule you know from God that your souls are yet in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity and your sins are not pardoned but that soul who in the Preaching of the Gospel can say Blessed be God I have felt Christ come into my heart and prevailed upon me and now Christs Laws are the Laws I desire to be ruled by God knows I know but little of them but I will labour to understand them better therefore I come this day that I might know more of the Law of God and that Jesus Christ might rule more powerfully in me than ever he hath done if this be wrought

hope their sins are pardoned Do you so then you know the love of God in Christ for this is a special work of the love of God in Christ to pardon sin now the Apostel says when you come to know this you come to be filled with all the fulness of God What is the fulness of God as faith increases with the rest of the graces so you grow fuller and fuller in Gods fulness and so you grow more into a fuller assurance of pardon of sin now the soul can say as I find more assurance of the love of God in his Son so I find my soul more filled with this grace of the fulness of God Alas when I was under the Law God and I were strangers I felt little of God in me but now I begin to know the love of God in the Gospel I begin to have my soul filled with fulness of God not with chaff and dross and filthy things which heretofore my thoughts will and affections were filled withal but now 't is otherwise with me my soul is now filled with all the fulness of God certainly that soul that can say thus may well go a way with that word of Christ spoken to the woman Luk 7.50 Go in peace thy faith hath saved thee Rom. 5.1 The Apostle speaks of pardon of sin being justified by Faith we have peace with God that is God revealing justification by Faith in Christ it brings peace with it and by whom we have access and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God and not only so but we glory in tribulation knowing that c. What knowledge is this It 's this that we are justified by Faith and so come to have peace with God How does this cause the heart to be inlarged we rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God and not only so but we are strengthened and can glory in tribulation our hearts grow up to that strength that whatsoever tribulations we meet withal we are able to bear them with patience and not only so but to glory in them we not only grow up to bear that which many cannot but to rejoyce in them that is more and then to glory is above rejoycing Now Do you find that the assurance that you have of the love of God brings strength in to your soul to inable you to rejoyce in hope of the glory to come as if the Apostle had said let what will become of us for the present what though the world scorn us hate persecute us yet we rejoyce in hope of the glory that is to come and this makes us glory in tribulation knowing that tribulation works patience patience experience and experience hope Here 's a working of several graces together and this may help many a poor soul O says the soul at such a time I had a great deal of assurance of pardon of sin and much joy thereupon But have not Hypocrites joy yes certainly a Hypocrite may have wonderful ravishments of spirit and flashes of pardon of sin but yet there is somewhat wanting in other graces but how shall I know that my assurance of pardon of sin is right thus according to the degree you have of assurance of pardon you have an answerable degree in the growth of other graces as Humility Patience Heavenly-mindedness Self-denyal and the rest according as your faith grows so you have a proportionable growth in all other graces faith is as the root and the more sap there is in the root the more will the branches grow those people that are so full of assurance and never doubted as they say but as for other graces they are empty as the Fear of God Meekness Patience Self-denyal Heavenly-mindedness and the like certainly if thy faith be so high and thy other graces so low thou hast much cause to fear thy faith is not right 't is not the faith of Gods Elect as the Scripture speaks it is not pretious faith for according to the degree you have of that all other graces will grow you hope that your sins are pardoned How come you by it the soul that hath true pardon of sin hath fetch 't it from Heaven in a right way in Gods own way How is that it is on this wi●e the soul that sees it self lost and undone through the guilt of sin God revealing his infinite riches of grace in the Gospel such a soul seeing God on his Throne holding out his Son God-Man as Mediator to make an attonement it by a mighty work of faith closes with that glorious way of Reconciliation by the Son that it sees God the Father tender to him and so fetches grace out of the Treasury of Gods bounty in the way of the Gospel in an Evangelical way that was before opened Examine now Have you fetcht out your pardon through the way of the Gospel that the soul by a mighty act of faith hath been willing to venture its self and its eternal station on the Son of God Have you look't on Christ as a mighty Mediator as one able to save you then you have acted faith in a Gospel way and your sins are pardoned Again Are you pardoned then you are sealed that you heard likewise of there is the Broad Seal of Heaven that stamps the Image of God upon the soul as the Image of the King is on the Seal of the Kingdom so the Image of God the Broad Seal of Heaven is stampt upon the soul which I mention that you may make use of it in examination Ninthly Whomsoever God pardons there will be an answerable work in thy soul unto the work of God in justifying thee as in Election and Vocation so in Justification How is that thus that as God notwithstanding all thy sin accepts of thee to his grace and love so notwithstanding all the trouble and afflictions that are in Gods ways thou wilt accept of God and his ways he accepts of thy soul notwithstanding thy sin thou wilt accept of him and his wayes notwithstanding all evils and afflictions that accompany company them there are woful evils of sin that accompany thy soul yet God will accept of thee so there are great evils in the ways of God Afflictions that accompany them yet thou wilt accept of them and think it reasonable What shall God accept of my soul notwithstanding all the evil of sin and shall not I accept of Gods ways notwithstanding all the evil of affliction and trouble certainly the soul that is pardoned cannot but answer God so far as this Will God justifie me notwithstanding my sin I will justifie God notwithstanding any trouble affliction difficulty or sufferings that may befal me in his ways and I will justifie the ways of God this is both an Evidence and a duty God justifies our souls though they be very sinful we have cause to justifie Gods ways though they be very troublesom if thou dost not so thou art none of Gods child for wisdom is justified of her Children