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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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GOSPEL-RECONCILIATION, OR Christs Trumpet of Peace TO THE WORLD. › Chapter 51
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CHAP. 51.
Use. 2. Ministers ought to speak as the Oracles of God. The manner of their preaching Opened.
Use. 2. Ministers ought to speak as the Oracles of God. The maner of their preaching Opened.
The next use that arises from hence is that the Apostle Peter makes in 1 Pet. 4.11. If any man speak, let him speak as the Oracles of God, mark it, here is an exhortation to those that have to deal in the ministry of the word, that they must (when they speak the word) speak it as the Oracles of God; so that, that ⟨p. 294⟩is delivered in the word; you see it to be as the Oracles of God, whatsoever a minister speaks (according to scripture) it is to be looked upon as the oracles of God. Now therefore if this be so, that the word that is spoken (according to the rule,) is the Oracles of God. then it is the duty of all that do speak the word of God to speak it in such a manner, as it may appear to be the Oracles of God. I have not now to speak to many ministers, and therefore I shall not enlarge my self in this as I should have done. Oh! with what a reverence should ministers speak, for they come to speak as in Christ stead? and therefore they should speak in such a manner as becomes the voice of God, and of Jesus Christ; as the Oracles of God, and not think to speak according to their own fancies, and their own humours, and in their own ways: but to speak as those that are sent in Gods place, to speak to the people as if Christ were speaking to them: and therefore to consider they are in the place of Christ, so to speak with all authority as from Christ, as in