A30581:454
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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T• that I answer but in a word, when we speak to you concerning war, what is our aim? what doth it tend to? But only this; that you may be willing to venture your selves, your lives and estates to maintain among you this word of Reconciliation; here is the end, were it not for this, we could quickly ⟨p. 277⟩hold our mouths, we should not hazard our selves so as we do to speak to you of such an argument; we are apparently, and any man (whose eyes are but half open) may see that if we be sluggish, and cowardly now, farewell the word of Reconciliation, the word of the Gospel is gone, we must not expect that that must be amongst us, and the posterity that is coming after. It may be some of you may know, that since God hath called a Parliament, and blessed it, as he hath don, never was the word of Reconciliation opened so clearly as it hath been: there hath Been some kind of preaching before with a deal of mixtures: but for that clear way of Reconciliation, your consciences may tell you that is hath not been so clearly opened.
T• that I answer but in a word, when we speak to you concerning war, what is our aime? what doth it tend to? But only this; that you may be willing to venture your selves, your lives and estates to maintain among you this word of Reconciliation; here is the end, were it not for this, we could quickly ⟨p. 277⟩hold our mouths, we should not hazard our selves so as we do to speake to you of such an argument; we are apparently, and any man (whose eyes are but halfe open) may see that if we be sluggish, and cowardly now, farewel the word of Reconciliation, the word of the Gospel is gone, we must not expect that that must be amongst us, and the posterity that is comming after. It may be some of you may know, that since God hath called a Parliament, and blessed it, as he hath don, never was the word of Reconciliation opened so clearly as it hath been: there hath Been some kinde of preaching before with a deal of mixtures: but for that clear way of Reconciliation, your consciences may tel you that is hath not been so cleerly opened.