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#82
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS
(1599-1646)
Gospel Remission
"When God comes to pardon sin, it is such a mercy as comes from the fountain
of God's everlasting love. Other mercies do not. Where this is not
present, you cannot have evidence of God's eternal love. If God gives
you health of body, good voyages at sea, and good comings in respect of the
world, you cannot draw arguments from hence that God bears eternal love to your
soul. But when He comes to pardon your sins, it is a certain evidence
that God has set His love on you from all eternity. If there were a chain
let down from heaven and you could take hold but of one link that would certainly
bring you there, both ends would come together.
In Romans 8:30, there is a chain of many links let down, and if you can catch
hold of the link of justification, you may certainly catch hold of predestination,
for all hang together. If you are justified, then know for certain that
you are a predestined man or woman whom God has set His heart upon from all
eternity to do good. And this is a great happiness for a poor creature
while he lives in this world, to know that God has set His heart upon him from
all eternity to do him good. And, indeed, we can never be at rest until
we come to this."
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