Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

Object. You will say, to other ends; Why? Do Gods ends cross one another? If Gods Heart be for Reconciliation with sinners, how should this Cross any other thing that God hath to do?

Object. You wil say, to other ends; Why? Do Gods ends crosse one another? If Gods Heart be for Reconciliation with sinners, how should this Cross any other thing that God hath to do?

Answ. For answer; (though things may seem to us, one to be cross to the other:) yet there is a blessed concord in Gods ends, and his ways, and it will appear plainly one day before the Children of men, and Angels, and it will be the great work of God, hereafter to manifest that those things that seem most to be cross one to another: yet will be very Advantageous and assisting to the Promoting, and Coronation of this blessed work.

Answ. For answer; (though things may seem to us, one to be cross to the other:) yet there is a blessed concord in Gods ends, and his waies, and it wil appear plainly one day before the Children of men, and Angels, and it wil be the great work of God, hereafter to manifest that those things that seem most to be cross one to another: yet wil be very Advantagious and assisting to the Promoting, and Coronation of this blessed work.

As it is in the Heavens, there is the motion of the Heavens; they have one motion by which they are carried one way, and there are the Stars, they have another particular motion of their own, and yet there is a concord in the motions of the Heavens. In any work that a man doth, as in a Clock, there is one wheel that runs one way so far, and another meets with it, they seem to run quite contrary ways, and yet take them altogether, and they do all run to the end that the work is intended ⟨p. 363⟩