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.]

Of Security against the worlds Reproaches, the fruit of Pardoning Mercy.

7. Where God hath forgiven sin, such a one need not care for the censures of all the world, and the reproaches they cast upon him; the men of the world cast many reproaches on the Saints, and say, they are hypocrites, that though they will not swear, yet they

will lie; that they are false, proud, and the like; Why? now the soul that finds it self acquitted before the Lord, need not care for all the censures and condemnations that can be cast up∣on him from the men of the world, Rom. 8.33. Having spoken before of the great grace of God in Justification, in vers. 33. he speaks as if he had made a challenge to all the world, let them all come in, let me see Who can lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? Why? because it is God that justifies: many will charge them of grievous things; I but it is God that justifies: What will a man care if the Prince have given him a pardon, though some kitchin boy, some shakeril about the Court should rail against him, so long as the King hath pardoned him; Ber∣nard hath a notable speech concerning David when Shimei rail∣ed, David was not troubled says he, he did not feel the injury heapt upon him, because he had felt before the grace of God towards him; the feeling of Gods grace towards him in pardoning, made him not feel the railings of Shimei; so Christ himself, Isai. 50. ver. 7. he said before, I gave my back to the smiters, and hid not my face from shame and spitting; they spit upon him: this is apparently spoken of Christ; but what upheld him, vers. 7. For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded for all this; therefore have I set my face like a flint against all scorns, rail∣ings, and accusations in the world; but what was the bottom of all this? mark, vers. 8. He is near that justifies me, who will con∣tend with me? let us stand together: Who is my Adversary? let him come near to me; let my Adversary come and do his worst, he is near that justifies me: true, Christ had no sin personally to be pardoned; but he had the sins of all the Elect charg'd upon him, and upon that he suffered death. Now we are to know, Christ is justified as well as Believer; and the very ground why a Believer is justified, it is because Christ is justifi∣ed himself; Christ being justified, a Believer comes to be justi∣fied; this might have been opened in the mysteries of Pardon of Sin: There is a justifying first in Christ as in a common publick person, and then by faith in our own persons. Now though in the Fathers Justification of Christ he justifies us, yet not as parti∣cular persons, but in him as a common person in the Name of all the Elect; and faith, that comes in that we might be justified

in our own particular persons, as before we were in Christ as a common person: Now Christ is justified first, and acquitted from all our sins, and this acquittance is made the ground of his challenge to all his Adversaries in the world, though the Prince of Devils come with all his power; yet says Christ, he is near that justifies me, and he will make my face as a flint, it is God that acquits me, who is my Adversary? let him come near: Oh its a blessed thing when thou hast got the pardon of thy sin! thou needest not care for all the reproaches the world can cast upon thee; thou may'st go up and down, and challenge any in the world to come in against thee, 1 Cor. 4.3. I pass not for mans judgment, he that judgeth me is the Lord; the world translated judgment, in the Greek it is mans day: Man has his day here, and he thinks to weary out the People of God; why says Paul, I pass not for mans day, he that hath the supream judgment in his hands, he hath acquitted me, and I am well enough.