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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. 65. The Fifth Argument: Manifesting the exceeding willingness of God and Christ to be reconciled to sinners.
CHAP. 65. The Fift Argument: Manifesting the exceeding willingness of God and Christ to be reconciled to sinners.
Fifthly, the Lord doth not only express his desire by a sigh, but by an Oath; he takes a solemn Oath upon it; how willing he is that sinners should come in, & be reconciled unto him, and it is the greatest Oath that ever God took (it is about sinners coming in) to profess his willingness that sinners should not die: but they should come in, and be reconciled to him, and that you have in the 33. Ezek. 11. Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner, &c. As I live, saith the Lord God. They were pining away in their wickedness, lying down in their sins now ⟨p. 323⟩as I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn; and therefore turn, turn, O! turn; Why will ye die? As if a poor sinner should lie down, and say; the Lord is provoked against me, and he will not be reconciled to me; No, the wrath of God is out against me, & he will revenge himself of me; the Lord looks upon a sinner lying in this manner, and he bids his servants go, and say to him; the Lord swears by his own life, and saith to this sinner; As I live, I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner, I swear by my self because I have no greater to swear by.
Fiftly, the Lord doth not only express his desire by a sigh, but by an Oath; he takes a solemn Oath upon it; how willing he is that sinners should come in, & be reconciled unto him, and it is the greatest Oath that ever God took (it is about sinners coming in) to profess his willingness that sinners should not die: but they should come in, and be reconciled to him, and that you have in the 33.