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

Consequence, 7.

Yet further. Our Reconciliation being in Christ; Hence it follows: That it is a most firm, and lasting Reconciliation, an everlasting Reconciliation; as it is in Christ, here is the ground of the Everlastingness of it; Hence it is, that there is nothing can make a Breach again between God, and us, so as we should become Enemies again unto him; so that when we understand this Reconciliation with these properties, and Consequences; then we understand aright what it is to be Reconciled unto God.

Yet further. Our Reconciliation being in Christ; Hence it follows: That it is a most firme, and lasting Reconciliation, an everlasting Reconciliation; as it is in Christ, here is the ground of the Everlastingness of it; Hence it is, that there is nothing can make a Breach again between God, and us, so as we should become Enimies againe unto him; so that when we understand this Reconciliation with these properties, and Consequences; then we understand aright what it is to be Reconciled unto God.

Consequence 8.

There is one Consequence or popery mor of this Reconciliation that I must ad to what I mentioned before. And that is this. That if it be in Christ that we are Reconciled unto God. Then certainly the work of Reconciliation is a very difficult work; it is a mighty hard thing; Heaven, and Earth must be moved before this can be done, and God even shakes the Heaven and the Earth in this work. It was the difficultest work that ever God himself undertook; and the difficultest work the Son undertook; for when he undertook it; you find that he did sweat at it, and before he had done it, it cost him his very hearts blood; therefore it was not an ordinary and slight work to reconcile God & man