A30581:491
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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I Have made some entrance into this second point. Doct. That God and Christ doth speak in the ministers of his word. What the ministers of God do (according to their rule and Word) it is to be looked upon ⟨p. 289⟩as if God and Christ did it. This is Clear in the text. As though God did beseech you, we pray you in Christs steed (saith the Apostle).
I Have made some enterance into this second point. Doct. That God and Christ doth speake in the ministers of his word. What the minesters of God do (acrding to their rule and Word) it is to be looked upon ⟨p. 289⟩as if God and Christ did it. This is Cleere in the text. As though God did beseech you, we pray you in Christs steed (saith the Apostle).
For this I gave you divers scriptures; & I might ad many more, ct thought to have added some more clear scriptures to show you that what the ministers do, it is as if God & Christ did it, I might name forty places that are clear in this point but shall not that I may proceed. What the minister; of God speak according to the rules (I say) it is as if God and Christ spake, and it must needs be sure, if we consider of the power that there is of Christ in the ministry: we have had experience of it, that there is such a power of the ministry of the word that it co•ld not be but only by the speaking of God, God and Christ in It: the which hath power to enlighten, to awaken conscience, to terrify the conscience, to humble, to bring down the stoutest proud heart in the world, yea, and to convert souls, in John. 5.25. the text saith of the word of the son of God that brings life, Verily I say unto you, that the hour is coming, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God and they that hear shall live. […] certainly this is spoken not only of the voice of the son of God at the general resurrection, but (saith he) it is now; the hour is coming, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God and they that hear shall live. It was at the time, and is continually in the ministry of the word; There is the voice of the son of God that makes the dead to hear and to live.