Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

I appeal to you how do we denounce them? do we denounce them absolute? or only in order to the bringing of the souls to faith and repentance? what do we plead against? It is but against your sin that is your enemy, ⟨p. 275⟩your deadly enemy; that would certainly undo you; that would destroy you eternally. Ahab speaks of the prophet, he never speaks good unto me; and yet saith Ahab, have I found thee O mine enemy? he looks upon the prophet as an enemy; so, wicked carnal hearts, (though we come to open the mysteries of the gospel to them; yet when we show them upon what terms it runs) they think we do not speak good unto them. Certainly (whatsoever your thoughts are) we are enemies to nothing but your sins, that would destroy you; that is your enemy, and would any one think it hard, to have his deadly enemy to be hardly dealt withal? Al that we desire, is; but to break the league between your souls and Sin, that there may be a league between God and your souls: certainly love of sin, and peace with God they cannot stand together at the same time; it cannot possibly be that there should be a league between sin and your souls, and yet a league between God and your souls; now which of the two do you think is the best, and who is your greatest friend? either he that seeks to maintain a league with sin or to break it that you may have a league between God, and your souls? this is the intention of the gospel.

I appeal to you how doe wee denounce them? do we denounce them absolute? or only in order to the bringing of the souls to faith and repentance? what do wee plead against? It is but against your sin that is your enemy, ⟨p. 275⟩your deadly enemy; that would certainly undo you; that would destroy you eternally. Ahab speakes of the prophet, hee never speakes good unto me; and yet saith Ahab, have I found thee O mine enemy? he looks upon the prophet as an enemy; so, wicked carnal hearts, (though we come to open the misteries of the gospel to them; yet when we shew them upon what termes it runnes) they think we do not speak good unto them. Certainly (whatsoever your thoughts are) we are enemies to nothing but your sins, that would destroy you; that is your enemy, and would any one think it hard, to have his deadly enemy to be hardly dealt withal? Al that we desire, is; but to break the league between your souls and Sin, that there may bee a league between God and your souls: certainly love of sin, and peace with God they cannot stand together at the same time; it cannot possibly be that there should be a league between sin and your soules, and yet a league between God and your soules; now which of the two do you thinke is the best, and who is your greatest friend? either he that seekes to maintain a league with sin or to break it that you may have a league between God, and your souls? this is the intention of the gospel.