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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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CHAP. 64. The fourth Argument: Manifesting the exceeding willingness of God and Christ to be reconciled to sinners.
CHAP. 64. The fourth Argument: Manifesting the exceeding willingness of God and Christ to be reconcilled to sinners.
Fourthly, the Lord expresses this his willingness to be reconciled to sinners with a sigh, as when he expresses his desire after sinners with a sigh, which is a note of earnestness of desire, and that you have in Deut. 5. and 24. verse: O! that there were such a heart in them. When we express our desires we say, I would there were such a thing: But when we express our most earnest desire, then we express it with an O! O! that there were: so saith God, O! that they had such an heart; that they would fear me, and walk in my ways, and why doth God express this? It is that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever: therefore O! ⟨p. 322⟩that there were such an heart. It is observable, if you turn your eyes to the former part of the Chapter, you shall find; that this people did say, that whatsoever God had spoken, that they would do: But the lord saw that there was not a through coming off of their hearts unto him to resign up themselves wholly to him: and therefore the Lord doth (as it were) fetch a sigh in the earnestness of his desire; O! that there were such an heart in them. If a man that were fallen out with another, when he were in his Bed-chamber, or at his Table, he should fetch a sigh, and say; O! that such an one would come in, and be Reconciled to me, how glad would I be to be Reconciled to him? how doth my soul long after him? would not every one say that this man earnestly desires Reconciliation with that person. But thus doth God, he sits (as it were) and saith; O! that there were such an heart.