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

for so Christ makes peace that way in taking away the enmity, that the people of God might be one together, as well as they are one with God. So in Collo. 1 21, 22. You that were sometimes alienated, and enemies in your minds by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled; How? In the body of his flesh through death to present you holy, and blameless, and unreprovable in his fight: and that in verse the 20. is remarkable for this purpose; have (saith he) made peace, How? through the blood of his Cross by him to reconcile allthings to himself: [by him] I say. so that the Apostle would put an emphasis on this, that we are reconciled by Christ, By him, Saith he: and he was not satisfied in saying of it once, but he repeateth it again, by him, I Say, whether they be things on Earth, or things in Heaven. There are two difficulties in this Scripture. first in that it is said, God hath reconciled all things to himself in Christ; how doth God reconcile all things to himself in Christ? we are now speaking of reconciling those that shall be Saved eternally; but here the Apostle speaks of reconciling of all things: God may be said to reconcile, not only Saints, but all things unto himself in this regard: In that all things were liable to destruction through mans Sin; and it is in Christ, and through Christ that any ⟨p. 71⟩thing in the world is preserved in a good Condition. When you behold the Heavens, and the Earth, and the Sea, and all these things, and see the preservation of them in any good Condition; you must know it is all through Christ; and had it not been in regard of Christ, all things would have come to ruin, and confusion presently, and so God reconcileth all things to himself in Christ.

for so Christ makes peace that way in taking away the enmity, that the people of God might be one together, as wel as they are one with God. So in Collo. 1 21, 22. You that were somtimes alienated, and enimies in your mindes by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled; How? In the body of his flesh through death to present you holy, and blamless, and unreprovable in his fight: and that in verse the 20. is remarkable for this purpose; have (saith he) made peace, How? through the blood of his Cross by him to reconcile althings to himself: [by him] I say. so that the Apostle would put an emphasis on this, that we are reconciled by Christ, By him, Saith he: and he was not satisfied in saying of it once, but he repeateth it again, by him, I Say, whether they be things on Earth, or things in Heaven. There are two difficulties in this Scripture. first in that it is said, God hath reconciled al things to himself in Christ; how doth God reconcile all things to himself in Christ? we are now speaking of reconciling those that shal be Saved eternally; but here the Apostle speaks of reconciling of all things: God may be said to reconcile, not only Saints, but al things unto himself in this regard: In that al things were lyable to distruction through mans Sin; and it is in Christ, and through Christ that any