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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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Use, 4. Despair not of Gods making peace in this Nation.
Use, 4. Dispaire not of Gods making peace in this Nation.
Yet once more: If there be such a way of Reconciliation between God and us; if God hath wrought it so, that it is in Christ. Truly from hence we have no Cause to despair in Gods power, and wisdom, and goodness to make peace in this Nation; God hath done the greater work. You see that God is a God of peace and loves peace; and to the end that he might be at peace with the wretched Children of men, he hath wrought so wonderfully as to send his own Son into the world and provide such a way that he may be sure that peace may be made, and by that way he hath done it: He hath made peace between Mercy; and Justice; there is peace made between an infinite provoked God and wretched sinful vild Creatures. I told you before that this was a mighty difficult work; yea, the most difficult that ever was, or can be in the world. If God hath therefore wrought such a work so difficult, in a way so glorious. Then from hence learn not to despair, but that God may work even peace for us in this Nation, and an honourable peace, and a good peace too. We are not ⟨p. 119⟩only hereby encouraged to cry unto God for peace between him and our Souls; but we are by this encouraged to cry unto him for peace in the Nation, and that he would put an end to these woeful times of destruction, and misery, and war which many of our Brethren have suffered, and bled under. And indeed those that do understand, or have ever felt the work of God in working peace between his majesty and their Souls, they are those that have such interest in God, as if any people, shall prevail with him for peace in the land, it must be these; they will prove to be our peace makers in the conclusion, howsoever people at present cry out of them as if they were the means and instruments of making the gratest debate, and as if they were the enemies of peace: No my Brethren, they that have experience of this great work of God, of making peace between himself, and their Souls, they are they that he at the Throne of grace continually crying unto him that is the prince of of peace to make peace in the Land.