Gospel Remission, Publishers certification – Errata
THeſe are to certifie all into whoſe hands this Book ſhall come, that theſe Sermons contained in this Book (on Pſal. 32.1. Bleſſed is he whoſe Tranſgreſsion is forgiven and whoſe Sin is covered,) Entituled Goſpel Remiſsion, and Printed for Dorman Newman Stationer, are the painful and profitable Labours of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs, and publiſhed by the beſt and moſt Exact Copy extant.
Jan. 17. 1668.
Philip Nye,
William Greenhill,
William Bridge,
William Adderly,
Matth. Mead,
C. Helms.
There is now Re-printed The Chriſtian Man's Calling, with Directions to perform it in all religious Duties, Natural Actions, Particular Vocations, Family Directions, his own recreation. In the Relations of Parents, Children, Husbands, Wives, Maſters, Servants, and in all conditions in his dealings with all men in Company, in Solitarineſs, on a week-day from morning to night, in viſiting the ſick, and on a dying-bed, by Geo. Swinnock, M.A. late of Great Kimbal in Buckinghamſhire.
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,
William Greenhill,
William Bridge,
William Adderly,
Matth. Mead,
C. Helmes.
The Inhabitant ſhall not ſay, I am ſick: the People that dwell therein ſhall be forgiven their Iniquities,
Iſai. 33.—34.
London, Printed for Dor. Newman, and are to be ſold at his Shop at the Chirurgions Arms in Little Brittain near the Hoſpital-gate, 1668.
To the READER.
Chriſtian Reader,
THe provident care of God is manifeſted toward his People in the preſent Preſervation of, and proviſion for them. To have the mouths of Lions ſtopped when we are caſt into the mid'ſt of their Den; the Waters to be a wall about us on the right hand and on the left, which in their own nature and tendency would overwhelm us, to have the Buſh burning, and not conſumed, are as evident tokens of the good will of him that dwelt in the buſh, of Gods preſence with and owning of his afflicted People now, as in the days of old; yea to have Hony out of the flinty Rock, Manna in the Wilderneſs, a voice behind us, Saying, This is the way, walk in it; enforceth as great an obligation to admiration and thankfulneſs upon us, as upon the Iſraelites of old. Among'ſt the many Engliſh Prophets who are dead, and yet ſpeak, the Reverend Author of the enſuing Treatiſe may challenge a place with the firſt Worthies: His Works, not my words are the beſt Orators to commend him: That Scripture Encomium may be written upon his Stepney and Cripplegate-Lectures,—This and that man was born there. For although many now living, do through mercy enjoy able Teachers and Inſtructors; yet do they owe to him the Name of Father, as an Inſtrument of their Converſion. I may boldly apply that ſaying to holy Burrough's, which was once ſpoken of a Learned Divine beyond Sea: Meruerunt viri docti etiam poſt funera vivere, ac docere ſcriptis poſteros, quos infeliciter poſt eos naſci contigit; in eo autem virorum ordine Burroughſium reponere, nemo praeter eum, qui propriae diffidit virtuti, prohibebit.
Theſe Sermons preſented to thy view, are with the help of an able Learned Divine, (who alſo heard theſe Sermons preached,) caſt into that form of a Tract that now thou ſeeſt them in, without any material Additions or Alterations. The time when the Reverend Author preached them, was next in order after thoſe convincing Sermons, of the ſinfulneſs of Sin; ſo that this Goſpel Soul-Reviving Diſcourſe was then a word ſpoke in due ſeaſon.
In this Treatiſe thou haſt Goſpel Grace ſtated rightly, the Juſtice of God cleared, the Mercy of God exalted, poor trembling Sinners incouraged to come to the Blood of Chriſt for Pardon, preſumptuous ſinners awakened out of their deadly deluding Dreams of Heaven, when they are ready to drop into Hell. In a word, here thou may'ſt take a view of the Love of the Father, the Grace of the Son, the Fountain opened for Sin and for Uncleanneſs, Cordial Waters of Life for ſinking and fainting ſinners, here thou may'ſt behold Sin, Damning ſin, ſin that God hates, and cannot but hate; Sin that God puniſheth, and cannot but puniſh, taken off the poor believing ſinner and laid upon his Surety; ſin condemned and puniſhed in Jeſus Chriſt, and the Believing Sinner juſtified, pardoned, acquitted. If therefore thou prizeſt peace with God through Jeſus Chriſt, Pray for light to direct thee into a diſtinct knowledge of this Goſpel Truth, and take up this Book and read it, and the Lord give thee underſtanding in all things, anſwerable to the Deſign of the Author, and the Prayer of him who heartily wiſheth thy Salvation, and growth in the knowledge of God, and of our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt.
C. Helmes.
The Stationer to the Reader.
IT is now long ſince I undertook the Printing of this Book, and as my Incouragements were many, ſo I had obtained of one of thoſe Reverend Divines that have given their atteſtation to it, to peruſe the Work, and had his Teſtimony that he heard thoſe Sermons preached; and upon Peruſal of them found not any thing Material left out, of what the Author Mr. Jer. Burroughs delivered; and knowing that Mr. Peter Cole (who formerly Printed many of the Author's Works) had long laid wait and endeavoured to get this Copy out of the hands of thoſe that publiſhed the Author's Books, offering as great Reward for the ſame, but could not obtain it. And now at laſt being ſo much wiſhed thereunto by his friends; being aſſured that as the whole is abundantly ſpiritual and lovely in its Matter, and that wherein the very ſpirit and ſtyle of Mr. Burroughs is manifeſted; ſo there are many things (as I am informed) were never ſo much as touch't upon, or handled by any other Writer, and yet are of very great Importance to be known by all Intelligent and Sober-minded men, I thought good, having this aſſurance from them, to certifie ſo much to the Reader.
Dor. Newman.
Some of the greater faults in Printing to be thus amended
Page 2. line 17. for ſorrow read terror. p. 7. l. ult. to children add of men. p. 15. l. 26. for thee r. him. p. 21. l. 32. for letter r. little. p. 30. l. 1. to inlet of add all. p. 36. l. 37. after the firſt word cry add but it may be. p. 45. l. 9. after pardon add and. l. 14. after in add to. l. 15. for run r. ran. p. 56. l. 19. after how add then. p. 60. l. 3. after ſeeing add the heart of. ibid. after Holy Ghoſt r. are for is. p. 81. l. 31. after horrible add evil. p. 98. l. 6. for fourthly r. fifthly.
Goſpel Remiſſion.
PSAL. XXXII.1.
Bleſſed is he whoſe Tranſgreſsion is forgiven, and whoſe Sin is Covered.