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Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world
Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world wherein is showed (besides many other gospel truth) ... that there was a breach made between God and man ... to which is added two sermons / by Jeremiah Burroughs.Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world wherein is shewed (besides many other gospel truth) ... that there was a breach made between God and man ... to which is added two sermons / by Jeremiah Burroughs.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1657
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Secondly, O! the blessed estate of a Believer, of one that hath embraced the Gospel, he is Reconciled to God, he is at peace with God, and that hath a great deal in it as you have have heard. The Jews were wont to express all kind of prosperity, and happiness by this word [Peace] Peace be to you; and in saying so, they did wish all manner of good; for indeed the word is a comprehensive word; and therefore God accounteth it his glory, to be called the God of Peace; and the very God of Peace, &c. And the Son of God, it is his glory to be the Prince of Peace. And the spirit of God, it is his glory to have the fruits of the spirit to be Joy, and Peace. And it is the honour of the Gospel, to be the Gospel of Peace. And it is the glory of the Kingdom of God to consist in righteousness, and Peace. And it is the Evangelical benediction; Grace, & peace, It is the glory of the Covenant of Life, to be a Covenant of Peace. Peace, it is a most amiable thing; But Peace with God, how lovely, and amiable, and glorious is it? Ask a wounded Conscience that apprehends, and is sensible of that enmity that sin hath put between God, and it, what it would give for peace with God? Ask, Ask a dying man that apprehends what God is, one who hath no peace with God, what he would give for Peace with God? If you could possibly ask those damned spirits that are now in Hell, what they think of peace with God? O! what a Commendation would they set on this peace! Well may we ⟨p. 39⟩be willing to endure some trouble in seeking after this peace with God: well may we be contented to lie under the stroke of the Law as long as God pleaseth, for this peace will at last make up all. Those that have endured the greatest terrors of the Law, when the Lord hath come in with manifestations of this peace, and Reconciliation to them in Jesus Christ, they have thought all well recompensed; and if it had been to endure a thousand times more than they have done, they would have thought all to have been made up in this blessed peace. This is a blessing indeed in these troublesome times wherein we hear of nothing but of wars and of rumours of wars, and we are taught by what we now hear, and feel, and know, to prize outward peace. But if we think outward peace be so great a mercy, what is this Reconciliation, and peace with God, the Soul blessings.