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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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GOSPEL-RECONCILIATION, OR Christs Trumpet of Peace TO THE WORLD. › Chapter 35 › Reason 4: Reason. 4.
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Reason. 4.
A fourth Reason why it goes in such terms as these. That hereby the Lord may show; that those that shall actually come in to be reconciled unto him, they must come in while they are in this world. That those persons that are capable of Reconciliation, are only such persons as live in the world: If they be not reconciled before they are gone out of the world, they are never to be reconciled: therefore is this phrase, God is Reconciling the world to himself. As if he should say: If once you are gone out of the world, and are not reconciled unto God before you are gone, you are lost for ever. The object of this my grace, is only those people that live in the world, if they pass away this time, and ⟨p. 166⟩be not reconciled unto me while they live here, they shall never be reconciled; for God was not reconciling himself to men that are in Hell, for they are not of this world, they are gone out of the world; they were suffered by Gods patience to live a great while in the world, and here they filled the world with sin as much as in them lay; Now they are gone out of the world, and are gone from the shine of Gods grace, which shall never come to shine upon them more; they shall never come to hear any offer of the Gospel more. This is a fourth Reason.
A fourth Reason why it goes in such tearmes as these. That herby the Lord may shew; that those that shal actually come in to be reconciled unto him, they must come in while they are in this world. That those persons that are capable of Reconciliation, are only such persons as live in the world: If they be not reconciled before they are gone out of the world, they are never to be reconciled: therefore is this phrase, God is Reconcileing the world to himself. As if he should say: If once you are gone out of the world, and are not reconcilied unto God before you are gone, you are lost for ever. The object of this my grace, is only those people that live in the world, if they pass away this time, and