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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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Doct, That the Ministry of Reconciliation with God is committed unto the Ministers of God to preach unto the World. The Ministers of God have a commission both from the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; to preach the Doctrine of Reconciliation to the people, for here we have it in the very words which follow. We are Ambassadors of Christ as if God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christs stead be you Reconciled to God, for Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is likewise in the commission ⟨p. 253⟩of Gods Ministers, when they come to preach in the name of God, and that you have in Nehem. 9.20. Thou gavest thy good spirit, It was the Prophet that came to instruct them, it was the Spirit of God in the Prophet that did instruct them, So that the Ministers of God have their commission from the Father, from the Son, and from the Holy Spirit, to come to the people and to reveal the great counsels of God unto them, they are sent by the whole Trinity unto the people, here is their commission, you have it clearly, But the commission is more immediately from Christ (though there is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in it) yet it is more immediately from Christ, because Christ is the great Prophet of the Church, & it is part of the prophetical office of Christ to have the great counsel of God his Father in the mystery of our Reconciliation to be opened to the people, Christ was first anointed, and then he doth as it were, anoint other officers to this great work, in Isa. 61. There you shall find the great Prophet, he is first anointed, The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me, To what?
Doct, That the Ministery of Reconciliation with God is committed unto the Ministers of God to preach unto the World. The Ministers of God have a comission both from the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; to preach the Doctrine of Reconciliation to the people, for here we have it in the very words which follow. We are Embassadors of Christ as if God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christs stead be you Reconciled to God, for Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is likewise in the commission ⟨p. 253⟩of Gods Ministers, when they come to preach in the name of God, and that you have in