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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. 76. The sixteenth Argument: Manifesting the exceeding willingness of God to be reconciled to sinners.
Further, there is an other evidence of the willingness of God to be reconciled unto sinners and that is this. The Lord doth foresee, that after he hath done all to be reconciled unto sinners, let him do what he can, the Lord foresees what a little honour he shall have (for the present ⟨p. 347⟩at least in this world by them) he sees that after they are brought in that yet still there will be abundance of corruption and they will dishonour God extremely now, and will grieve the Holy spirit that doth thus draw them; he sees that they will walk more offensively, and it may be, Scandalously towards their brethren, and dishonour the profession of religion. God sees what a deal of do, and stir, he shall have with those that he doth bring in to himself, and yet for all this he goes on with his work and labour with the hearts of sinners, notwithstanding all that he doth foresee. And then the last of all is this; that after the Lord hath used all these means to bring sinners to come in, and break their hearts that they might be reconciled to him, (though they that stand out against him, and plead, and weep over them, and mourn) yet the Lord is content to wait, and yet a long time upon sinners, and not to take advantage against them for their rejecting of this Grace of his that he tenders to them. That scripture I named before is sufficient for that, Isa. 30.18. And therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious. Oh! how many years hath the Lord waited upon some of you? We have cause to stand and admire at the Grace of God that ever he would once offer mercy to us; that after so many offers and such importunities to prevail with our hearts, and we frowardly have rejected this Grace, that now God should wait upon us to heal our souls, and at length to overcome us; Oh! this manifests the goodness of God, and the tenderness of his heart to be willing to be reconciled unto sinners, and therefore in Jer. 13