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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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CHAP. 14. How Christ comes to be a fit Reconciler. Opened in seven Particulars; 1. Because he is the second person in the Trinity. 2. He hath taken our Nature on him. 3. He knows fully the mind of the Father. 4. He fully knows what will satisfy the Father. 5. God the Father doth infinitely Love him. 6. He never offended the Father. 7. What he doth hath infinite efficacy and worth.
CHAP. 14. How Christ comes to be a fit Reconciler. Opened in seven Particulars; 1. Because he is the second person in the Trinity. 2. He hath taken our Nature on him. 3. He knows fully the mind of the Father. 4. He fully knows what wil satisfie the Father. 5. God the Father doth infinitly Love him. 6. He never offended the Father. 7. What he doth hath infinite efficacy and worth.
The second thing propounded in the twelfth Chapter is this. How Christ comes to be a fit Reconciler; it is he who is the great Peace-maker; and therefore in the Scripture he is called the Prince of peace; it is he that is Melchizedek, King of righteousness, and King of peace; But how comes he to be so? by being a Mediator between the Father and us: and so you shall find he is called in the Scripture. Heb. 8, 6. But he hath obtained a more Excellent Ministry by how much also he is the Mediator of a better Covenant, that is, of a Covenant of grace, and not of that covenant of works. Now Christ he is a fit mediator to come in, and to mediate between ⟨p. 77⟩God, and us. As amongst men when there is a Breach between two, and they are at a Distance; the Breach is such as requires one to come in, and to mediate between them; It is not always necessary between man and man where there is a Breath, that one should come and mediate; but there being a Breath between God, and us, it was absolutely necessary that a mediator should come in to treat between God and us, and there could never have been the least parley, the least treaty between God, and fallen man, had not a mediator stepped in between and this mediator is Jesus Christ, and it is he that is only fit to be our Reconciler, and Peace-Maker.