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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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Secondly, Why it is expressed in such a large term as the World.
Secondly, Why it is expressed in such a large tearm as the World.
First, I shall make it appear, That it cannot be meant of every particular man, or woman in the world: Nay, indeed, the truth is, that there is a great part in the world and such a part as the world may receive denomination from too, that Christ hath rejected, & shall never be reconciled to: and that is clear in John. 17. where Christ saith, That he prayed not for the World, surely then he died not for the world: there are some in the world that Christ did not so much as pray for; How was God reconciling himself to the world then, when as Christ professeth, he did not pray for the world? It appears by this, that we are not to understand it of every particular man, or woman in the world; there are some that are in the world that God was never reconciling himself unto.
First, I shal make it appear, That it cannot be meant of every particular man, or woman in the world: Nay, indeed, the truth is, that there is a great part in the world and such a part as the world may receive denomination from too, that Christ hath rejected, & shal never be reconciled to: and that is cleer in John. 17. where Christ saith, That he prayed not for the World, surely then he died not for the world: there are some in the world that Christ did not so much as pray for; How was God reconciling himself to the world then, when as Christ professeth, he did not pray for the world? It appears by this, that we are not to understand it of every particular man, or woman in the world; there are some that are in the world that God was never reconciling himself unto.