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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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Object. You will say, had it not been better that God should have chosen the Angels to come in and preach Jesus Christ, than men? for they are poor weak Creatures, and like our selves, and now when they come to stand up and Preach Jesus Christ, the great things about reconciling men to God, should we think that they know more then we ourselves?
Object. You wil say, had it not been better that God should have chosen the Angels to come in and preach Jesus Christ, than men? for they are poor weak Creatures, and like our selves, and now when they come to stand up and Preach Jesus Christ, the great things about reconciling men to God, should we think that they know more then we ourselves?
Answ. You must not think that there is no good to ⟨p. 260⟩be done till one comes and tells you that you never heard of.
Answ. You must not think that there is no good to ⟨p. 260⟩be done till one comes and tels you that you never heard of.
But you must know; that it is by virtue of the ordinance of Christ: because he hath appointed a Minister of the Gospel to come, and in such a way to preach, though the instrument be like your selves, and perhaps may not have a deeper understanding then some of you, yet you are to look upon it beyond the matter that he speaks, you are to look upon it as the ordinance of Christ, and so to expect, and look at all means whatsoever. But now the great standing ordinance in the Church of God is the Ministry of the Gospel, It is this that is committed to us to Preach, and this therefore is to be looked upon as the power of God to salvation in those that God intends Salvation to: God hath not chosen the Angels, but Men, and upon this reason, because we are not so capable of conversing with Angels as men; we are not able to stand before them; when an Angel hath sometimes appeared to a gracious Servant of God he hath not been able to bear the glory of it, but to fall down, and when the Angels came in the 2 of Luk. and said, Glory to God on high &c. The Angels struck the Shepherds with amazement.