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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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Now the thing which I thought to have finished in this Chapter (but shall not until the following Chapter) is this. That God is aforehand with his people in Reconciling himself, he begins the work. To wit (saith the text) that God was in Christ Reconciling the world &c. It is God that begins the work of Reconciliation, and if God did not begin it, certainly we should never be reconciled unto him. It is God first that begins to have any thoughts about Reconciliation, and if he should not have done it, we would never have thought on it, but have gone on desperate enemies to him all our lives.
Now the thing which I thought to have finished in this Chapter (but shal not until the following Chapter) is this. That God is aforehand with his people in Reconciling himself, he begins the work. To wit (saith the text) that God was in Christ Reconciling the world &c. It is God that begins the work of Reconciliation, and if God did not begin it, certainly we should never be reconciled unto him. It is God first that begins to have any thoughts about Reconciliation, and if he should not have done it, we would never have thought on it, but have gone on desperate enemies to him al our lives.
Secondly, It is God that finds the way of Reconciliation, we could never think of a way, or if we did, we could never have found out a way.
Secondly, It is God that finds the way of Reconcilation, we could never think of a way, or if we did, we could never have found out a way.
Thirdly, It is God that begins to offer terms of Reconciliation, we would never go unto God, except God came unto us, such is the stoutness of our hearts.
Thirdly, It is God that begins to offer tearms of Reconciliation, we would never go unto God, except God came unto us, such is the stoutness of our hearts.