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

Use. 3. To encourage sinners to come to God for Reconciliation: And discouragements removed.

The Third is a Use of encouragement to sinners to come for Reconciliation with God. You may remember that one Reason why God did on purpose appoint this way to Reconcile himself to the world, was, that he might break the hearts of sinners, and that it might be an encouragement to sinners to come in, Is this Gods End? O! that then God might have this end in your souls This hath bin our endeavour to open what we could, this Doctrine of the Gospel, namely, of Gods Reconciling of himself in Christ; and we have not done this only from this Text but from others: and though divers other things have been spoken, yet you cannot but know, that the drift of all hath bin to this purpose, that God may have this glory of gaining our hearts to himself, and that it might be an encouragement unto you to come in to be reconciled unto God. Are ⟨p. 114⟩there any that are apprehensive of the Breach that sin hath made between God and their souls? I suppose there are many. You put up papers of complaints of the hardness of your hearts and that you cannot be sensible of sin as you desire; it is a sign that there is some sensibleness therefore of the breach between God and you. Now the Lord in opening of this Doctrine propounds the way of Reconciliation, and he would fain draw your hearts to come in and to be reconciled unto him; what is it that hinders? These two things are the Only hinderance.

The Third is a Use of incouragement to sinners to come for Reconciliation with God. You may remember that one Reason why God did on purpose appoint this way to Reconcile himself to the world, was, that he might break the hearts of sinners, and that it might be an encouragement to sinners to come in, Is this Gods End? O! that then God might have this end in your souls This hath bin our endeavor to open what we could, this Doctrine of the Gospel, namely, of Gods Reconciling of himself in Christ; and we have not done this only from this Text but from others: and though divers other things have been spoken, yet you cannot but know, that the drift of al hath bin to this purpose, that God may have this glory of gaining our hearts to himself, and that it might be an incouragement unto you to come in to be reconciled unto God. Are