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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

in chains eternally except thy soul be rent from that sin as well as from any other thou understandest not the way of God in the dispensing of his grace to the soul if thou thinkest God will pardon some sins and give thee liberty in others thou sottish soul know that when thou goest to God for pardon of sin thou must go with a heart resigned up from every sin or else thou losest all thy labour and art held in the chains of them all 3. Those that never look after their Prayers to call it into Question what answer they have had I have prayed to God but have I got any answer in my own heart or hath God come in in any Ordinance and sealed to me my pardon thus the soul should look after pardon in Prayer and all other means Many pray but never look after their Prayers whether God hear or no Psal 85 8. I will hear and hearken what the Lord God will speak thus the Psalmist and thus it would be with thee if thou did'st not dally with God after thou hast cryed for pardon thou would'st be listning at Heaven gates and looking towards God What answer doth God give I have prayed and there comes no answer the soul that sets it self in a solid and serious way to seek for pardon will be often looking out and remain much troubled till an answer come Many cry for pardon but are not troubled till God give answer they deal with God as Pilate did with Christ ask't him What is Truth but never stayed to have an answer but went his way so we do but dally with God in our Prayers and Petitions when we ask for forgiveness of sin and neglect to look after an answer 4. As those that look not after the answer of their Prayers dally with God so those that follow not their Prayers with answerable indeavours they Petition that God would be merciful unto them but what are the indeavours of your souls after your Petitioning if there be not indeavours to attend upon the means of grace that God uses to speak peace to souls in all your Prayers are nothing but of this I shall speak afterwards you are to search into the Covenant and enquire after the Saints what course they have taken and what means they have used to obtain pardon 5. Those that pray for pardon yet are satisfied with other things as thus they pray for pardon but if the world come in they are satisfied and quieted with that as a Child that hath a piece of Gold given him and an Apple he will be still'd with the Apple so many men sue to God for this great work of pardon of sin but let God give them health and accommodations in the world they are satisfied and contented with them and little or never seek after the pardon of their sin that is a fifth sort that are charged this day before the Lord that do but dally with God about seeking pardon for their sins Sixthly They that are quiet upon weak and slight Evidences dishonour God certainly they have not those high thoughts of the mercy of God in pardoning sin that content themselves with poor Evidences about it as most do come to many people and ask them What you hope that God will pardon your sins yes we do hope but upon the poorest Evidences imaginable those Evidences they lay the waight of the pardon of their sins upon are such broken reeds that it would make a man amazed that understands what the worth of a poor soul is that they should venture so great a thing on so slight a reed What is the reason because they have but slight thoughts of the forgiveness of sin that that a man puts a high valuation of he will make sure but that which he slights he is not so intense in as to instance if one give you in payment Silver Gold and Farthings you take the Farthings and do not tell them but you tell the Silver and the Gold you not only tell it but weigh it too What is the reason because you little esteem of the Brass and so will not tell it you more esteem the Silver and therefore tell that but the Gold you not only tell but weigh it because you have a greater esteem of that than the other this is an argument may convince the men of the world that their esteem of earthly things is more than of Heaven and their souls because they labour to make earthly things more sure than the things of heaven a worldly man to make sure his Estate will have Bond upon Bond and Seal upon Seal and carry his Evidences to Counsellors and say I beseech you Sirs see whether there be not some flaw in them I shall lose all my money if there be but a crack in my Evidences he is mighty careful of this because he hath such a high esteem of his worldly concerns But how does it appear that men have but poor low thoughts about the pardon of their sins because they content themselves with such poor mean Evidences for had they a high esteem of it they would labour to make pardon of sin surer than any thing in the world To wind up all those that know what pardon of sin is how do they spend their time and lay out themselves to get assurance Take this one note Because God sees those that are his own people understand what forgiveness is have a high esteem of it and are very solicitous about it he condiscends in his kindness to assure them by all sorts of ways and means methinks God deals with them in this manner the poor soul stands shaking and trembling crying our Oh! that I might have my sins forgiven and have assurance of it Why says God what way do you take to make things sure from one to another says you first we give our word one to another says God you shall have that I give you my Word What have you else Secondly say you we cause it to be written well says God you shall have it written and this is a great mercy the Covenant of grace is written we have it not from hand to hand as our fore-fathers had What do you else require Thirdly you say to have witnesses well says God you shall have witnesses in things between man and man In the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing is established Matth. 10.16 Now God in reconciling a Soul to himself brings no less than six witnesses to confirm a Believer in assurance of his grace and favour to him 1 Joh. 5.7 8. There are three that bear record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and three that bear witness on Earth the Spirit Water and Blood three in Heaven and three on Earth to assure thee of forgiveness of sin that is a third way Is there any other way yea Lord Fourthly we use not only to have a word and this word put in writing

thou hopest thy sins are pardoned and that God will justifie thee and wilt not thou justifie him Does not thy sin hinder Gods grace to thee and shall trouble and affliction hinder thy glorifying God O man thou hast too vile a heart and too base a spirit to be one of those that God hath pardoned if thou wert a child of Wisdom and one whom God hath pardoned as God hath justified thee so thou wilt justifie God This note may meet with those that in company hear Ministers and the ways of God cryed out against and yet have not a word to speak to justifie God perhaps Gentlemen and others spake ill of Gods ways and thou standest speaking and hast not a word to say for God and his ways Dost thou think God hath justified thee and dost thou hear God and his People and his Word reproached and thou hast not a heart to justifie God Tenthly and lastly Those whom God pardons and forgives he puts in them a merciful frame of heart to forgive others and that upon Divine grounds there is a kind of natural forgiveness many will forgive but it is as a Heathen forgives another and it is a shame for many that profess themselves Christians that they do not go so far but you must forgive in a spiritual way for that is the way that accompanies padon of sin to forgive because I have had more forgiven such a one hath offended me but how much more have I offended the Lord and if the Lord forgive me ought not I to forgive him you know in the Gospel he that had so many Talents forgiven him and afterwards went and took his Brother by the throat how ill the Lord took it that having forgiven him so much he should exact of his Brother the utmost farthing Hath God forgiven thee thy sin which had he not it would have everlastingly chained thee in torments and wilt not thou forgive for as it is an Evidence so it is a duty and a part of Prayer in that divine Directory called the Lords Prayer Matth. 6. Forgive us as we forgive and in another place it runs thus forgive for we forgive therefore thou can'st have no Evidence that God hath forgiven thy iniquities and pardoned thy trespasses except others be in thy thoughts forgiven too I might have given divers Scriptures but I mention it as a duty that you that have any knowledg of your sin pardoned would make this as a ground to forgive your Brethren say Alas poor wretch hath God forgiven me was there ever such a distance between my brother and me as there was between God and me and hath God forgiven and shall not I forgive my brother It is impossible a soul should be made acquainted with the rich mercy of God in forgiveness of sin and have not a meek spirit to forgive his brother Nothing can take away the rugged sowrness and rigidness of one man towards another but the Oyl of Gods grace in pardoning of sin and that coming once into the soul makes the soul to be of a sweet mild gentle kind and tender frame Observe this you that have rugged natures you say it is nature and you cannot help it if any thing change it it is the mercy of God in pardoning thy sin is there not so much in the grace of God in pardoning thy sin as to change that rugged nature of thine certainly there is else thou hast little hope that thy sin is pardoned therefore if God have pardoned thee thou must go and do so likewise I am perswaded many of you hope 't and longed for this Sermon and I desired to be the larger because I would lay the Evidences full before you here you have had the blessed man and woman described unto you but there is but few of them few can go away and say as we have heard so it is But I hope divers of you can it was for you that it was preached and sent from Heaven that you should feed upon it and 't is as needful as the bread you eat But there is one thing more that is very meet to annex to all that hath been said for without that I am afraid there are many to whom the consolation of this Text and Point belongs to will go away with little comfort because they know not how to apply them and that is to give some rules how to make use of these signs and be able to apply them and by the same rules you may come to know any other notes of Trial concerning your spiritual Estate and to make use of them in any other particular whatsoever CHAP. XVIII Of the Rules how to apply the Evidences of Pardon of Sin IT is a matter of great concernment to us to try whether our sins are forgiven for in times of danger our hearts are ready to sink but the Evidence of this that our sins are forgiven will hold up our hearts in the midst of the greatest dangers whatsoever if Heaven and Earth should meet together if I have assurance of this for so it follows after David had pronounc't him blessed whose sins were forgiven Vers 6. Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him there may be floods of great waters but he that hath his sins forgiven God shall preserve him and compass him about with songs of deliverance but they that have their sins compass them about shall have horrour and terrour to compass them about but says David having assurance his sins were pardoned Thou art my hiding place and thou shalt compass me about therefore if your hearts close with those Evidences given you may have comfort in the great water-floods God will be a hiding place unto you it concerns very much to labour to put this out of doubt and not to put it off to a sick-bed or death-bed time of examination but now to those Evidences there is another thing which is of great concernment in this Point and that is to give some rules how to make use of those or all other Evidences that shall be given at any time for tryal of any Especially for the tryal of our states in point of Justification or Sanctification but they will be helpful to the use of any other Evidences whatsoever First is this that you may be able to apply those rules of Trial and Evidences given though you cannot find them all yet if you find but any one of them you may receive comfort from that though you feel not the rest you may be assured that the rest are there Many a soul many times hears Evidences of the happy condition in point of pardon of sin and it may be there is one two or three that they can catch hold on but there are some others they cannot take hold of them if thou findest but one of them in thy heart though thou can'st not feel or see the other yet God doth see the other to be there within though