A30581:407
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We now pass on to the next thing. And that is the Commission for declaration of this Doctrine of Reconciliation with God in Christ, in the last words of the 19. verse. And hath committed unto us the word of Reconciliation: God hath committed unto us. I find the words in the Original different from that they are read in your English Bibles, the word [Committed] is, and put into us, so the words are; put in this word of Reconciliation: so if you read it word for word according to the Original Text it is thus. And he hath put in us the word of Reconciliation. But because this kind of reading would seem to be something harsh in our English phrase, therefore the Translators have translated it thus: And hath committed to us, but the Original expresses it in this manner, to show what it is that is needful to a Minister of the Gospel, that he should have the Doctrine of Reconciliation to sink deep into his own heart, first, that so when he comes to speak to the hearts of other men, he may speak from the heart and so to the heart, the word that comes from heart (we say) goes to the heart, therefore it is of great use, that one that is a Minister of the Gospel should have the word of Reconciliation, the mysteries of the Gospel deeply rooted in his heart, that when he comes to speak to the people he may speak it not merely from his tongue and head but from his heart experimentally that his heart may be in his ministry, that so it may be more effectual to go to the heart of the people to whom he speaks, and that expression is somewhat like to this 1. Gal. 16. verse. in the 15. verse it is said ⟨p. 252⟩But when it pleased God who separated me from my Mothers Womb, and called me by his Grace to reveal his Son in me. To reveal his Son [in me] he doth not say to reveal his Son [to me] but [in me] so the words are: so that indeed it doth befit a Minister of the Gospel to be a profitable Minister when Jesus Christ comes to be revealed [in him] And so much for the expression [hath committed unto us] that is, put in us the word of reconciliation.
We now pass on to the next thing. And that is the Commission for declaration of this Doctine of Reconciliation with God in Chrst, in the last words of the 19. verse. And hath committed unto us the word of Reconcilation: God hath committed unto us. I find the words in the Original different from that they are read in your English Bibles, the word [Committed] is, and put into us, so the words are; put in this word of Reconciliation: so if you read it word for word according to the Original Text it is thus. And he hath put in us the word of Reconciliation. But because this kind of reading would seem to be somthing harsh in our English phrase, therefore the Translators have translated it thus: And hath committed to us, but the Original exprsses it in this manner, to shew what it is that is needful to a Minister of the Gospel, that he should have the Doctrine of Reconciliation to sink deep into his own heart, first, that so when he comes to speak to the hearts of other men, he may speak from the heart and so to the heart, the word that comes from heart (we say) goes to the heart, therefore it is of great use, that one that is a Minister of the Gospel should have the word of Reconciliation, the mysteries of the Gospel deeply rooted in his heart, that when he comes to speak to the people he may speak it not meerly from his tongue and head but from his heart eperimentally that his heart may be in his ministry, that so it may be more effectuall to go to the heart of the people to whom he speaks, and that expression is somwhat like to this 1. Gal. 16. verse. in the 15. verse it is said