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.]

Title

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.]

Author

Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.

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London :: Printed for Dor. Newman and are to be sold at his shop ...,

1668.

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Salvation -- Sermons.

Salvation -- Early works to 1800.

Sermons, English -- 17th century.

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"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.]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30582.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• publisher's certification
• publisher's advertisement
• title page
• To the READER.
• The Stationer to the Reader.
• Some of the greater faults in Printing to be thus amended
• Gospel Remission.
  • CHAP. I. The Text Opened, and the Main Doctrine Propounded.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Blessedness of the Pardon of Sin, which appears 1. Negatively in the Evil it frees us from.
    • 2. Of the Positive Blessedness of the Pardon of Sin.
    • 1. Of the Efficient Cause of Mercy in forgiveness of Sin.
    • 2. Of the Final Cause of Mercy in forgiveness of Sin.
  • CHAP. III. Of the wonderful Mysteries of Godliness in forgiveness of Sin.
    • Of the first Mystery, it is by means of a Mediator.
    • Of the second Mystery, It is through Christs undertaking the Debt upon himself.
    • Of the third Mystery, It is by Christ's Sufferings:
    • Of the fourth Mystery, Where Sin is pardoned, the Soul stands righteous before God.
    • Of the fifth Mystery, This Righteousness is in another.
    • Of the sixth Mystery, A near Union is made between Christ and the Soul.
    • Of the seventh Mystery, It is by Faith, yet boasting excluded.
    • Of the eight Mystery, God is infinitely Just, and yet infinitely Merciful.
    • Of the ninth Mystery, When God forgives sin, for the present, he forgives all to come.
    • Of the tenth Mystery, God pardons a sinner, not because he is; but that he might be chang'd.
    • Of the eleventh Mystery, God himself purchases the Pardon.
  • CHAP. IV. That Pardon of Sin not only is a Mercy in it self, but the Foundation of many other Mercies.
    • Of Peace with God, that Pardon of Sin is an inlet to.
    • Of Gods Revealing his Secrets to those whom he Pardons.
    • Of Pardon of Sin making all other Mercies to be Mercies.
    • Of Pardon of Sin making all afflictions easie to be born.
    • Of Healing, the fruit of Pardoning Mercy.
    • Of comfort against Death following on Pardoning Mercy.
    • Of Security against the worlds Reproaches, the fruit of Pardoning Mercy.
    • Of the Foundation of Eternal Life laid in Pardoning Mercy.
    • Of Pardon of Sin being the bottom of all true Comfort.
  • CHAP. V. Of Pardoning Mercy passing through a great many dif∣ficulties.
  • CHAP. VI. Of Pardoning Mercy coming from the Fountain of Gods Everlasting Love.
  • CHAP. VII. Of Pardoning Mercy, being a work that all the three Persons in the Trinity are ingaged in.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of Pardoning Mercy being a Perfect Mercy.
  • CHAP. IX. Of Pardoning Mercy being an Irrevocable Mercy.
  • CHAP. X. Of Pardoning Mercy, being such a Mercy as is denyed to the fall'n Angels.
  • CHAP. XI. Of Pardoning Mercy being given to a few.
  • CHAP. XII. Of the Possibility of Pardoning Mercy, how it would be prised by poor Souls now under wrath.
  • CHAP. XIII. Of Pardon of Sin, being the special end of all Gods Ordi∣nances.
  • CHAP. XIV. Of the Dishonour that is done by Men to the Pardoning Grace of God by slighting of it.
  • CHAP. XV. Of the Dishonour done to the Grace of God by not rest∣ing on it. 2. Of the Evil of it.
    • Of the Evil of dishonouring the Pardoning Grace of God.
  • CHAP. XVI. Of the several Mistakes of Men about the Pardon of their Sins.
  • CHAP. XVII. Of the true Evidences of Forgiveness of Sin.
  • CHAP. XVIII. Of the Rules how to apply the Evidences of Pardon of Sin.
  • CHAP. XIX. Of Exhortation to seek after Pardon of Sin, with Cautions and Rules, how, and what we are to do.
  • CHAP. XX. Of Encouragements to seek after Pardon of Sin.
• A TABLE of the Principal Things contain'd in this Treatise.