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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.
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.
You will Say; How doth this make him fit? Thus; The Sin that was committed in the first transgression was more directly against the first Person, God the Father. Why, will you say, was it against one Person rather than against another? It was indeed against them all; but it was more directly against the first Person; and this is the reason of it, because mans first sin was against that perfection which God gave him in his creation; against that created righteousness that was put into him which was especially the work of the first person in trinity; for Creation is attributed to the first person; and man sinning against that work of Creation, hence it comes to pass that the first is more directly, and immediately offended. Now therefore the second Person in the Trinity, he comes next in Order, and therefore it is he that is fit to be a Reconciler between the father and us, because we having sinned against the work of Creation, God the father unto whom that work is attributed, is more especially offended.
You wil Say; How doth this make him fit? Thus; The Sin that was committed in the first transgression was more directly against the first Person, God the Father. Why, wil you say, was it against one Person rather than against another? It was indeed against them al; but it was more directly against the first Person; and this is the reason of it, because mans first sin was against that perfection which God gave him in his creation; against that created righteousnes that was put into him which was especially the work of the first person in trinity; for Creation is attributed to the first person; and man sining against that work of Creation, hence it comes to pass that the first is more directly, and immediatly offended. Now therfore the second Person in the Trinity, he comes next in Order, and therefore it is he that is fit to be a Reconciler between the father and us, because we having sinned against the work of Creation, God the father unto whom that worke is attributed, is more especially offended.
2 But not only so, for if he had been but only the second person; if he had been but only the Son of God, he could not have been the reconciler of us unto God, and therefore there must be somewhat else. When we ask you what Christ is; you Ordinarily answer the Son of