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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
GOSPEL-RECONCILIATION, OR Christs Trumpet of Peace TO THE WORLD. › Chapter 8 › Section 4
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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Fourthly, One that is at peace with God, will evermore be on Gods side, he will go which way the cause of God goes, and he will be content though it be never so dangerous to venture himself on Gods side. As such a one by a secret instinct from God himself is able to know and distinguish which is Gods side, and he is not so full of questions as others are: So being once reconciled to God, and at friendship with him, he will always be on that side. Many will say, indeed if we knew which were Gods side, we would be of it: friends, the reason why you find it so hard to find, and discern the side of God, and to know it, it is because you are not friends to God; if God were thy friend, his secrets would ⟨p. 47⟩be made known unto thee: try now whether it be so with thee or no: where ever thou art; if there be siding against God, though there be but few that stand up for him, and his Cause, thou wilt be sure to join with them that stand for God, though they be the fewest, and though they be meanest in the Town where thou livest: this is a true argument that thou art one that art at peace with God.
Fourthly, One that is at peace with God, wil evermore be on Gods side, he wil go which way the cause of God goes, and he wil be content though it be never so dangerous to venture himself on Gods side. As such a one by a secret instinct from God himself is able to know and distinguish which is Gods side, and he is not so full of questions as others are: So being once reconciled to God, and at friendship with him, he will alwaies be on that side. Many wil say, indeed if we knew which were Gods side, we would be of it: friends, the reason why you find it so hard to find, and discern the side of God, and to know it, it is because you are not friends to God; if God were thy friend, his secrets would