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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. 67. The Seventh Argument: Manifesting the exceeding willingness of God and Christ to be reconciled to Sinners.
Yet further, God manifests himself willing to be reconciled in this; that when he sees that (notwithstanding all these expressions that have been before that we have spoke of) if sinners will not come in; God he will seek them seeing they will not seek to him, God seeks himself to sinners. First that is a point that you have heard before, that God is aforehand with us; God comes to us because we will not seek to him. If a man be fallen out with another he should come and seek to him: but he will not, because he hath such a stout heart. Well saith he, that I may convince him that I am not such an austere man as he conceives me to be, I will seek to him first, and I will not only seek to him, but I will go to him, and beseech him, and that you have in the Text; Christ is said to come to save, and to seek that which was lost, we were all lost and we would not seek to him: but he was fain to come, yea, he came from the bosom of his Father. He came into the world, and his great Errand was to seek those that were lost, and when he had found them he beseeches them to be reconciled unto him.
YEt further, God manifests himself willing to be reconciled in this; that when he sees that (notwithstanding al these expressions that have been before that we have spoke of) if sinners wil not come in; God he wil seek them seeing they wil not seek to him, God seeks himself to sinners. First that is a point that you have heard before, that God is aforehand with us; God comes to us because we wil not seek to him. If a man be fallen out with another he should come and seek to him: but he wil not, because he hath such a stout heart. Wel saith he, that I may convince him that I am not such an austeer man as he conceivs me to be, I wil seek to him first, and I wil not only seek to him, but I wil go to him, and beseech him, and that you have in the Text; Christ is said to come to save, and to seek that which was lost, we were al lost and we would not seek to him: but he was fain to come, yea, he came from the bosom of his Father. He came into the world, and his great Errand was to seek those that were lost, and when he had found them he beseeches them to be reconciled unto him.