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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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But though there be such several workings of God, yet this doth not argue any change in God, which is an Objection that many through weakness make; that because God doth this thing, and the other thing & the other thing that was not done before, therefore […] would argue, as if there were a charge in God, and therefore would conclude; that there is nothing that is now done, but was done, and that as it is now done, so it was done everlastingly. ⟨p. 151⟩But we are to know this; that Gods actual pronouncing of a sentence of absolution now; was not done before, doth no more argue a change in God; than Gods glorifying the Saints in Heaven now, who were not glorified before. To be Justified in time, doth no more argue a change in God, than to be glorified in time argueth it. The Saints upon Earth are not yet glorified, and yet they shall be glorified, and that argues no change in God. So the Elect that are not yet Believers, are not yet Justified in that sense the Scripture speaks of Justification, yea they shall be Justified: and that argues no change in God.
But though there be such several workings of God, yet this doth not argue any change in God, which is an Objection that many through weakness make; that because God doth this thing, and the other thing & the other thing that was not done before, therefore 〈…〉 would argue, as if there were a charge in God, and therefore would conclude; that there is nothing that is now done, but was done, and that as it is now done, so it was done everlastingly. ⟨p. 151⟩But we are to know this; that Gods actual pronouncing of a sentence of absolution now; was not done before, doth no more argue a change in God; than Gods glorifying the Saints in Heaven now, who were not glorified before. To be Justified in time, doth no more argue a change in God, than to be glorified in time argueth it. The Saints upon Earth are not yet glorified, and yet they shal be glorified, and that argues no change in God. So the Elect that are not yet Beleevers, are not yet Justified in that sense the Scripture speaks of Justification, yea they shal be Justified: and that argues no change in God.