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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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Is there any hope that there shall be a parley between the King and me? Certainly this poor man will even be ready to have his heart sink within him, and sit down altogether overwhelmed with fear, and despair. And so indeed should we all have done upon our reasoning within our selves concerning Gods dealing with the fallen Angels, had we not had this glorious, and blessed sound of the Gospel, and hopes of Reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ, we would all have sunk down into the bottomless Gulf of despair, and concluded certainly against our selves, that there can be no peace between God and us, we being such enemies unto him as we are by nature. But though this be beyond our thoughts as far as the Heaven is above the Earth; and though this could never enter into the heart of man, that ever God would parley with poor fallen man after so great an emnity begot by sin; yet know, this is the message that is come from Heaven, even from God himself, that he is contented to parley with you; yea, so Contented, as that he himself hath sent ambassadors to us to entreat us be reconciled. But of that hereafter. God I say is Content to enter into treaty with man concerning ⟨p. 12⟩[…] ⟨p. 13⟩[…] ⟨p. 14⟩a Reconciliation and the making up of a peace between him, and their souls; for that indeed is the very scope of the Gospel. If I should a little dwell here to inquire the Reason of this, why the Lord should be willing to enter into this treaty with man-kind: the truth is, it is an unsearchable depth, we cannot imagine any Reason why the Lord should rather choose to parley with us, and to treat concerning terms of peace with us than with the Angels. There is something indeed which we may have in our thoughts; As thus. If God did not Reconcile himself to man, and save him, he should loose his whole Creature; he did not loose all the Angels when they fell, but if God should not provide a way to be Reconciled to man, the whole kind of that Creature would be utterly lost: now the Lord will not cast away the whole kind of such an excellent Creature as man is. But the truth is, these are but guesses at this Reason in choosing to treat with us about salvation, and not with the Angels. But the main thing is: God hath ways to glorify himself that we know not of in reconciling himself to man-kind.