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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. 31 The work of our Reconciliation with God in Christ hath been a doing from all eternity.
CHAP. 31 The work of our Reconciliation with God in Christ hath been a doing from al eternity.
IN the last Chapter we came to the sixth point that formerly hath been propounded in the first Chapter; and that is this. That God [Was] reconciling himself to the world in Christ. [Was] and when was he? Even from all eternity, he was reconciling himself to the world. That point I did then name, and shall now a little enlarge it, and so proceed to some other. The point is this.
IN the last Chapter we came to the sixt point that formerly hath been propounded in the first Chapter; and that is this. That God [Was] reconcileing himselfe to the world in Christ. [Was] and when was he? Even from all eternity, he was reconcileing himselfe to the world. That point I did then name, and shal now a little inlarge it, and so proceed to some other. The point is this.
Doct. That the work of our Reconciliation with God in Christ, it is not a work of yesterday, it is a work that hath been doing from all eternity; it is not a thing that falls out as it were accidentally, but a plotted thing, a thing that hath been plotted from all eternity. I gave you then but only one scripture for it: I shal ad some more now, and open it more fully. That scripture I gave in the 1 Tit. 2. In hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Now to whom did God promise it before the world began? The first promise that was made, and that we read of, was to Adam in paradise, the seed of the woman shall break the Serpents head. O! but there was a promise beyond that promise; a promise made before Adam was, or before the Angels were, or before the world began; a promise of eternal life, which is the accomplishment of our reconciliation with God; this promise could be made to no other, but to the Son of God that was with the Father, and the delight of the Father; not only the delight of the Father as he is the Son eternally begotten of the Father, but the delight of the Father