Burroughs, Jeremiah
Gospel Remission: God’s Gracious Plan to Forgive Sin (Burroughs) - Paperback
Description
The greatest blessing anyone can have is remission, or forgiveness, of sin. Beloved Puritan pastor Jeremiah Burroughs shows just that, spending this entire work expositing Psalm 32:1: “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.”
In this treatise gospel grace is stated rightly; the justice of God is cleared; the mercy of God is exalted; poor, trembling sinners are encouraged to come to the blood of Christ for pardon; and presumptuous sinners, facing an eternity in hell, are awakened out of their deadly deluding dreams of heaven. In Christ, sin is condemned and punished, and the believing sinner is justified, pardoned, and acquitted. If you prize peace with God, pick up this book and pray for light to direct you into a distinct knowledge of this gospel truth.
“The blessedness of any man or woman does not consist in the enjoyment of anything in all this world, but in the free grace of God forgiving sin!”
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Contents
To the Reader
Chapter 1 The Text Opened and the Main Doctrine Propounded
Chapter 2 The Blessedness of the Pardon of Sin Appears
Chapter 3 Eleven Wonderful Mysteries of Godliness in Forgiveness of Sin
Chapter 4 Pardon of Sin Is Not Only a Mercy in Itself, but the Foundation of Many Other Mercies
Chapter 5 Pardoning Mercy Passes Through a Great Many Difficulties
Chapter 6 Pardoning Mercy Comes from the Fountain of God’s Everlasting Love
Chapter 7 Pardoning Mercy Is a Work That All the Three Persons in the Trinity are Engaged In
Chapter 8 Pardoning Mercy Is a Perfect Mercy
Chapter 9 Pardoning Mercy Is an Irrevocable Mercy
Chapter 10 Pardoning Mercy Is Such a Mercy as Is Denied to Fallen Angels
Chapter 11 Pardoning Mercy Is Given but to a Few
Chapter 12 How the Possibility of Pardoning Mercy Would Be Prized by Poor Souls Now Under Wrath
Chapter 13 Pardon of Sin Is the Special End of All God’s Ordinances
Chapter 14 Dishonor Is Done by Men to the Pardoning Grace of God by Slighting It
Chapter 15 Dishonor Done to the Grace of God by Not Resting on It
Chapter 16 Men Make Several Mistakes about the Pardon of Their Sins
Chapter 17 The True Evidences of Forgiveness of Sin
Chapter 18 Rules How to Apply the Evidences of the Pardon of Sin
Chapter 19 Exhortation to Seek After Pardon of Sin, with Cautions and Rules How to Seek, and What We Are to Do
Chapter 20 Encouragement to Seek After Pardon of Sin
The Life of Jeremiah Burroughs
A Summary of the Gospel
About the Author
Jeremiah Burroughs (1599–1646)
While Jeremiah Burroughs was loved for his preaching and gentle spirit, he was persecuted for his nonconformity to the Church of England. Forced to flee to Rotterdam, Holland for a time, he eventually returned to England and preached to congregations in Stepney and Cripplegate in London, two of the largest in England.