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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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he could have no Communion with these Creatures after they were made, and these Creatures could have no communion with him; none of them could know God, or take any notice of God, or praise God actively. God is a pure act, and he is not content with having his glory passively, but he must have his glory actively: It is true, all his Creatures were made as an instrument in tune; but there was none to play upon it; and though there be never so much of the glory of God in all the Creatures in the world, yet if man had not been made, none could have sounded forth this glory of God; those Creatures had been Dumb in that respect, like an instrument that cannot of it self sound forth any music unless there were some to play upon it: ⟨p. 7⟩and so it is here, God had made all other Creatures very good, and there was in them matter of Gods praise; but now, to the end that this praise and glory of God may be sounded forth, he brings in man, and he gives him skill to praise the name of God in all these Creatures; and in this God delighted very much.
he could have no Communion with these Creatures after they were made, and these Creatures could have no communion with him; none of them could know God, or take any notice of God, or praise God actively. God is a pure act, and he is not content with having his glory passively, but he must have his glory actively: It is true, al his Creatures were made as an instrument in tune; but there was none to play upon it; and though there be never so much of the glory of God in all the Creatures in the world, yet if man had not been made, none could have sounded forth this glory of God; those Creatures had been Dumb in that respect, like an instrument that cannot of it self sound forth any musick unlesse there were some to play upon it: ⟨p. 7⟩and so it is here, God had made all other Creatures very good, and there was in them matter of Gods praise; but now, to the end that this praise and glory of God may be sounded forth, he brings in man, and he gives him skil to praise the name of God in all these Creatures; and in this God delighted very much.