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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

they be not made so sensible to you and therefore soul take hold of that which you can see or feel and be assured the other are there though they are not seen if thou can'st take hold of one linck of a chain and all the other be fastened to it thou may'st be able to draw the whole chain unto thee for by taking hold of one link thou takest hold of the whole though thou touchest not the other so in the work of Gods graces they are as a link united to one another and if you can lay hold of one link you may be assured of the other although you see them not it is with many in this point as it is with some ignorant man the Physitian tells him he must take such a thing that must have these and these ingredients in it and when the Apothecary has mingled all it may be but one of these things can be seen in the colour and outward appearance perhaps some one syrup may take up all the colour in the outward part and when it is brought to him says he I must have so many Ingredients in it and I see but one I but though you see but one yet there may be the efficacy of all in it though but one give the colour so it is with the graces of Gods Spirit though at the present some one appears yet there may be the efficacy and power of them all in the soul though there appear but one perhaps it is in this case as among many ingredients you can see and tast but one yet there may be the power of twenty there though neither seen nor tasted so it is with the work of God in the soul sometimes it may be that there is but one grace to be seen tasted or felt and yet where that one is there are all the other so that that is one rule when you look for Evidences and Signs if you can find but one in your souls all are there as it is in sin where one sin hath Dominion over the soul though the others be not seen yet we are to know that other sins have dominion over the soul too though some men live under the slavery of one sin more than another as one man under the power of Covetousness another under the power of Ambition or any other sin this man may be thought to be under the power of but one sin but the truth is he is a slave to all sin every natural man that is out of Christ is under the power of every sin he is a slave to the Devil in every sin but by reason of the constitution of his body and for some outward respects he may refrain from some particular sins that do not so well suit with him whereas if it would serve for his own ends and purposes he could as well commit any sin as that one this is a certain truth Whosoever makes not Conscience of every sin he makes Conscience of none though he refrain from the practice of some others it is not out of Conscience but for by-ends therefore he that is under the power of one sin is under the power of every sin Many think all men are sinners and for their parts they have but a few such a sin I cannot leave but I am free from all others Dost thou keep from all sin but one God will find thee under the power of every sin and God will charge thee at the Tribunal as under the power of all sin so now on the contrary Gods people are mightily troubled that they cannot find the work of Gods graces in all of them such an one they find but they want it in another because it is not so evidently stirring as the other but as the truth is certain on one side of the wicked so it 's true on the other side of the godly that where there is one sin there is every sin so where there is one grace there is all grace there is the power of godliness in every grace where there 's one grace that is the first rule to help us in making use of the Evidences before given The Second rule is this When ever we have found any one Evidence upon serious examination in the presence of God and now it appears not positively to the contrary at the present but thou art meerly dubious of those things that heretofore thou hast felt because thou dost not feel them now in this case we may and should have recourse to what God has wrought heretofore and build upon the former workings of Gods Spirit upon us true it is when we come to give Evidences in our Ministry of those that have grace we may meet at such a time with them as that they have sense of nothing and in such a condition as that they are not able to know their own hearts nor feel any workings upon them Now if it be meerly from want of sense and that the contrary positive evil appear not but only the want of feeling of what thou had'st and felt heretofore thou art to have recourse to the days of old as David often speaks that he would remember the days of old it may be you will say some Hypocrites have thought they have been in this condition they have had many slashes and yet they have proved naught how can we have recourse to what was before when God did work upon me I can indeed remember when God did draw my heart and then I thought I could have closed with any Evidence out of the Word I felt such workings in my heart but I might do all that and yet all be but in hypocrisie I answer that certainly the bare want of sense is not ground enough for me to think that all was in hypocrisie for this consider if I groan under it as under an affliction and would fain feel those former manifestations I had formerly and that I can take little comfort in my present case and that my soul is continually longing and panting after the workings of Gods grace that I heretofore had if this be so and that there is nothing to the contrary thou fallest not off to sin or to the world to satisfie thy soul in sinful ways and that thy heart is yet panting after God if it be thus with thee thou may'st take the comfort of what thou had'st before and feed upon it as Provision laid up before hand for thy soul as if thou had'st it present But Hypocrites that fall off from the visitations of Gods Spirit they fall not off only to a want of sense of those former movings and workings of the Spirit but their hearts come to be satisfied with something else and they take up with some other contentments and 't is not a want of feeling only of what they had heretofore but their hearts run out from God into other ways of sin and wickedness so it is with Hypocrites but thou hast this testimony that it is not so with

you do not rest much upon Evidences but then at that very time think with your selves though now I have comforts I may loose them and God may call me to another condition God never granted these helps unto me for my Saviours that I should rest upon them they are but bladders to help me to swim and God may take away these and call me to live upon the meer actings of faith and not at all on sense that 's certain he may do it for when we bring these Signs and Evidences of grace as they come from faith and are effects and fruits of it they are but as bladders to help young swimmers that cannot swim without them and learn them to swim but those that have got the Art though the bladders be taken away they can swim but take them away from the others and they will sink so that these Evidences are for young and weak Christians that cannot live on primary acts of faith which a strong Christian can do when all other things are taken away and therefore when we feel the comfort of any signs depend not on this the Lord may take them away and because he delights in the meer actings of faith that is the reason why God withdraws himself from the souls of his people that they shall not have the use of Signs and Evidences as they had before because he would teach them to live on the more necessary acts of faith God loves the voice of Job though he kill me yet will I trust in him I will venture my soul upon him whatever becomes of me when there 's nothing else to rest on but God then to live by actings of faith merely on him he delights much in this and therefore take heed you do not rest so much on signs as if all your comforts were lost and you undone when you cannot have such use of them as you have had heretofore Ninthly when you have at any time lost the use of signs do not determine that all is gone and that you shall never have the use of them more this is that that mightily hinders many poor Christians that are in trouble of Conscience because they cannot find the evidence of the pardon of their sins and that God accepts of them in what they do what do they do presently they yeild to the horrible sentence of damnation against themselves Gods Spirit say they is now gone and he will return no more he will never come any more unto me take heed you do not fasten on any such kind of thoughts as those are to determine of your own estates or that Gods Spirit will not come again but do you humble your souls before the Lord and wait upon him Tenthly When at any time all Signs and Evidences fail you and you are ready to determine that all is gone yet even then keep up good thoughts of God As the Spouse in the Canticles when her Beloved was gone yet she prized him and said He is the chiefest of ten thousands in Cant. 5. when she was asked What is thy beloved says she he is thus and thus then concludes He is altogether lovely and this was at such a time as he was gone yet she retain'd good thoughts of him so 't is a good sign for any soul that when trouble of conscience is upon them or any other trouble that they retain good thoughts of God and Christ and the wayes of God when the soul says whatever become of me though I perish for ever yet God is good his Word his ways are good his Gospel and the Covenant in his Son is good and whatever troubles are upon me yet God is righteous and though God justifie not me yet I will justifie God if there be any soul that cannot find his Evidences or any of those signs before spoken of you may make use of this if you cannot find any other do what thou can'st to justifie God thou art afraid that God will not justifie thee do thou justifie him sometimes it is with many men as with some wretched servant that has dealt falsly with his Master and may be all the while he can make any advantage of his Master for his own ends he will speak well of him but if his Master turn him out of doors for his wickedness then he rails on him 't is ordinary for bad servants to do so when they are turn'd away for their wickedness and so it is with many when all goes well with them then they like well of the wayes of God but if they come to such a condition as that they think that God will cast them away indeed and that they are like to perish then they begin to have hard thoughts of God and by degrees they speak against God and his ways take heed of this although you want the Evidences of his love and mercy yet retain in your hearts good thoughts of God and of his ways and this will be a special help to bring into your souls the comfort and assurance of your Justification and now I have done with this argument I have shewed you who it is that hath his sins pardoned I have shewed the several mistakes and I have shewed you certain infallible grounds from Scripture Evidences of the pardon of sin and Rules how to make use of those Evidences and now upon what you have heard you have testimony and assurance of the pardon of your sins or you have not if you find your hearts do not answer to these Evidences or that you are afraid that your sins are not pardoned then take a use of Exhortation to put you on to seek after this blessedness CHAP. XIX Of Exhortation to seek after Pardon of Sin with Cautions and Rules how and what we are to do I Am now come to a use of Exhortation and it concerns us all either those that are not pardoned or those that have assurance of the pardon of their sins for there is none that have assurance but may make use of it Christ taught his Disciples to pray daily for the forgiveness of their trespasses as well as for their daily bread and what we are to pray for we are to seek after so that it concerns all blessedness is desirable to all it is as natural for man as a reasonable creature to desire blessedness as it is for the fire to burn only here 's the great mistake in the world all would have it but they look not for it in the right way Now after all that has been said that thou may'st not have slight thoughts of the pardon of sin and say I hope they are pardoned and the like I shall speak to awaken thee suppose thou wer 't now set on the brink of the infinite Ocean of Eternity and the bottomless Gulf were ready to devour thee and the Records of Heaven were opened and there shewed thee that thy sins were not cancelled but remain upon the file What thou would'st then do do