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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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Secondly, The Second thing in reconciliation is this: not only the enmity that is in God is done away; but the Lord also doth take away the enmity on the souls part; that is, Thou comest by virtue of this Reconciliation to be so overpowered by the spirit of God, as that thou hast a heart in amity with God; at least that natural crossness and perverseness of thy heart against God whereby thou dost hate God and that which is holy and spiritual, is taken away, and thou hast a frameable spirit, framed by God, and made willing to come in and submit, and yield thy self unto God: God puts a Reconcilable spirit into thee, as he himself hath a Reconcilable spirit towards thee.
Secondly, The Second thing in reconciliation is this: not only the enmity that is in God is done away; but the Lord also doth take away the enmity on the souls part; that is, Thou comest by vertue of this Reconciliation to be so overpowred by the spirit of God, as that thou hast a heart in amity with God; at least that natural crosness and perversness of thy heart against God whereby thou dost hate God and that which is holy and spiritual, is taken away, and thou hast a frameable spirit, framed by God, and made willing to come in and submit, and yeild thy self unto God: God puts a Reconcilable spirit into thee, as he himself hath a Reconcilable spirit towards thee.
Thirdly, Further, in the third place: There is a receiving into entire love: not only a ceasing of the wrath, and of the enmity that is in God against thee, and a taking away of the enmity that is in thee against God: but there is a receiving into entire love, and that mutually, God receiveth thee into the love of a friend, and thou receivest God into the love of a friend too, so that there was never such an entire friendship between one friend and another after peace hath been made between them, as there is now between God and thy soul. And this is more than barely to be pacified, for men who were at enmity one with another may possibly come to have the fierceness of their enmity taken away, yea they may come to be so far Reconciled, as that they will never do one another hurt, they will never fight the one against the other as formerly they did: But yet perhaps for all this, they will never come to be: entirely loving one to