Gospel Remission

n 20 sermons Burroughs shows that the true blessedness of the human heart stems from the knowledge that God has perfectly pardoned my sin! The entire volume is built from Psalm 32:1 ("Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven / whose sin is covered"). "There is nothing in all the world that so much concerns us as to know how things stand with us in relation to God and our souls, whether we are pardoned or not. A mistake in this is a wonderful mistake, and yet how many thousands are there who venture the weight of this great business upon poor, weak, and slight grounds, yea, rather, on mere suggestions of their own heart" (p. 175).

Table of Contents:

The Text Opened and the Maind Doctrine Propounded The Blessedness of the Pardon of Sin Appears Eleven Wonderful Mysteries of Godliness in Forgiveness of Sin Pardon of Sin is Not Only a Mercy in Itself, But the Foundation of Many Other Mercies Pardoning Mercy Passes Through a Great Many Difficulties Pardoning Mercy Comes from the Fountain of God's Everlasting Love Pardoning Mercy Is a Word that All the Three Persons in the Trinity are Engaged In Pardoning Mercy Is a Perfect Mercy Pardining Mercy Is an Irrevocable Mercy Pardoning Mercy Is Such a Mercy as is Denied to Fallen Angels Pardoning Mercy is Given But to a Few How the Possibility of Pardoning Mercy Would be Prized by Poor Souls Now Under Wrath Pardon of Sin Is the Special End of All God's Ordinances Dishonor Is Done by Men to the Pardoning Grace of God by Slighting It Dishonor Done to the Grace of God by Not Resting on It Men Make Several Mistakes About the Pardon of Their Sins The True Evidences of Forgiveness of Sin Rules How to Apply the Evidences of the Pardon of Sin Exhortation to Seek After Pardon of Sin, with Cautions and Rules How to Seek, and What We are to Do Encouragement to Seek After Pardon of Sin