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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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Fifthly, Christ is a fit Mediator in this, That God the father doth infinitely love him, that he is infinitely dear to the father; and you know that it is a special ingredient for those to have that are to be Reconcilers, that they should be dear one to another, especially dear to the party that is offended. If a poor man hath offended a rich man in a Town, and he saith within himself, O! that I were reconciled unto such a one. If he can get one that is the intimate friend that that rich man hath in all the world to speak unto him in his behalf, he will conclude, that certainly the business shall have good success, and that this friend will prevail. Thus it is with our Mediator; he who is our Reconciler unto God, is infinitely dear unto the father, God the father doth infinitely delight in him; and therefore whatsoever he shall say, or do, must needs infinitely please God the father. This is our Mediator who is come to reconcile us unto God, he can say, and do nothing but it shall infinitely please, and delight the father.
Fifthly, Christ is a fit Mediator in this, That God the father doth infinitly love him, that he is infinitely dear to the father; and you know that it is a special ingredient for those to have that are to be Reconcilers, that they should be dear one to another, especially dear to the party that is offended. If a poor man hath offended a rich man in a Town, and he saith within himself, O! that I were reconciled unto such a one. If he can get one that is the intimate friend that that rich man hath in all the world to speak unto him in his behalf, he wil conclude, that certainly the business shal have good success, and that this friend wil prevail. Thus it is with our Mediator; he who is our Reconciler unto God, is infinitely dear unto the father, God the father doth infinitely delight in him; and therefore whatsoever he shal say, or do, must needs infinitely please God the father. This is our Mediator who is come to reconcile us unto God, he can say, and do nothing but it shal infinitely please, and delight the father.
Further, He is one that never did offend. There may be a friend that is very dear to the party offended and yet perhaps he himself hath offended the Party. ⟨p. 81⟩