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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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Use, 2. The Great honour of Ministers that are Faithful.
Use, 2. The Great honor of Ministers that are Faithful.
Secondly, Hence appears the great honour of the Ministers of the Gospel in their Ministry; we will not attribute to our persons, but to ⟨p. 269⟩our work, certainly, if they are committed to the Ministry of reconciliation, they are sent about the most honourable business that ever was in the world; to dispense unto the Children of men the great mystery of Salvation by Jesus Christ. So if a Minister be faith free in it, it may be said of any one that God uses in this; Happy that ever he was born, and blessed be the womb that bear him and the paps that gave him suck, if so be he be faithful in this his work; for he is employed about the greatest business that is in the world; never did God employ Angels in a work of greater consequence, and in a work wherein they are more honoured they are called in scripture Angels of the Churches, for indeed their work is Evangelical, and when he speaks of them in 1 Cor. 4.1. Therefore let a man account of us as of the Ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Brethren, we could be willing, that for our persons they should be never so contemptible before you if so be the contemptibleness of our persons might further the glory of our work, But we know ordinarily, that the contempt of persons hinders the honour of the work, and therefore saith the Apostle, let a man so account of us as of the Ministers of Christ, and stewards of the Mysteries of God: we are appointed stewards of the mysteries of God, we are stewards to deal out unto you the mysteries of life, and Salvation, Joseph was accounted highly off, when he did deal out the Corn in Egypt, and now this work of reconciliation is that that the Angels pry into, the Angels learn instruction from this mystery of reconciliation, it doth, not only beseem the greatest men in the world to attend upon it: but the Angels themselves honour it, and learn by it. I will give you a text for this because it may seem to be hard unto you, the text is in