Gospel Remission: God’s Gracious Plan to Forgive Sin

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

288 pages.

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