Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

Doct. Our Reconciliation with God is made in Christ. As we read of Jonah when the storms and tempests were in the Sea, and when the waves roared, and when the ship and the Mariners and all were like to be swallowed up, when jonah was cast into the sea, presently there was a calm. So, the storms, and tempests of Gods everlasting wrath are up against a Sinner, and the waves of that wrath are ready to swallow him up; But now Christ is cast into the heart of a man, and Christ being presented as one standing between God and man, all comes to be at a Calm. When the Disciples were upon the Sea, and the Sea troublesome; yet when Christ came, and rebuked the Sea, and the winds, all was still. So when there are troubles of Conscience, nothing can rebuke those troubles of Conscience; nothing can bring in peace and quiet into the soul, but only Christ coming into the heart; God is [in Christ] reconciling the world to himself. There is nothing more plain in the Scripture than this; that it is God in Christ that reconciles the world to himself. It is evident enough in the text, but I will give you a Scripture, or two for it, and then proceed to the opening of the point. That place in Rom. 5, 1. is most clear; Being justified by faith, we have peace with God; How? through our Lord Jesus Christ: no peace with God, but through our Lord Jesus Christ. It is an easy matter for us to say so; but to apprehend the necessity of this, that it must be through our Lord Jesus Christ that we have peace with God; to apprehend this clearly, and throughly, it is a great matter; and those know much of the mind of God that know this experimentally, ⟨p. 70⟩and powerfully. In Eph. 2.13.14. In Jesus Christ you that were far off are made nigh through his blood, for he is our peace: This is spoken in two regards; he is our peace with God, it is apparent that it must be spoken in that regard, for so it follows in verse 18. through him we have access unto the father; but it is spoken of Christs being our peace in regard of uniting us to the Church of God, to be made one with the people of God; but no saith God here is a reconciliation, are conciliation with God, and then a union with the people of God, with the church of God; the partition wall is broken down through Christ; and those that were as dogs before, are now set up at the table: and there is a peace made between Gods people and us;