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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. 15. What Christ hath under taken and performed in Our Reconciliation 1 to satisfy Gods Justice 2 To bring our hearts and subdue them to God.
CHAp. 15. What Christ hath under taken and performed in Our Reconciliation 1 to fatisfy Gods Justice 2 To bring our hearts and subdue them to God.
You will say; you have showed us these two things; that it is not God alone, and us, but in Christ, and us, that is reconciled. And you have showed us what a reconciler Christ is. And how fit. But for the third thing propounded in the 12. Chapter, hath Christ undertaken to reconcile us? Surely this is a great work to come and reconcile Sinful man unto God; Christ must needs undertake much in this? I will declare to you what Christ hath undertaken.
You wil say; you have shewed us these two things; that it is not God alone, and us, but in Christ, and us, that is reconciled. And you have shewd us what a reconciler Christ is. And how fit. But for the third thing propounded in the 12. Chapter, hath Christ undertaken to reconcile us? Surely this is a great work to come and reconcile Sinful man unto God; Christ must needs undertake much in this? I wil declare to you what Christ hath undertaken.
1 This agreement there is between Christ and the Father, He hath undertaken that he will Satisfy what ever his Fathers Justice shall require. As for example. If one should come to make a peace between a couple, and the one party hath extremely injured the other, and he that comes to make peace; he doth not only come and say, Sir I beseech you for my sake, pass by the wrong, and be reconciled unto him, though perhaps this may do much but this will not do the deed; and this is not the way of ⟨p. 83⟩