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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
GODS PRESENT MERCIES TO HIS PEOPLE, Are Arguments of FUTURE MERCIES… › Reason 4: Reason. 4.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
How shall we know when we may draw an argument, to assure our selves from that mercy we have now, that there is further mercies intended for us? This you may remember in the beginning of the point, I told you it was a privilege of Gods saints, and yet every one will be ready to snatch at it, & to conclude to themselves; well, God is a God full of mercy and therefore because he beginneth to show mercy to me, he will go on, surely I shall find favour, it hath been his way and course to deal thus with his people and therefore seeing he hath delivered me from one evil, he will deliver me from another.
How shal we know when we may draw an argument, to assure our selves from that mercy we have now, that there is further mercies intended for us? This you may remember in the beginning of the point, I told you it was a priviledg of Gods saints, and yet every one wil be ready to snatch at it, & to conclude to themselves; wel, God is a God ful of mercy and therefore because he beginneth to shew mercy to me, he wil go on, surely I shal find favor, it hath been his way and course to deal thus with his people and therefore seeing he hath delivered me from one evil, he wil deliver me from another.
(Brethren) it is the usual way of wicked men to catch at the privileges of the Saints, as if they were their own, we have a notable example for this in the prophecy of Jeremiah, that is worthy of our observation, in Jer. 21.2. It is an example there of Zedekiah, Zedekiah was a wicked man, and yet he flattered himself in this, and promised to himself, that what privileges the people of God had in former times, he must needs have the like, mark what he saith now; Inquire I pray thee of the Lord for us, Nebuchad-nezar King of Babylon, maketh war against us, if so be the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works that he may go up from us, Mark (saith Zedekiah to Jeremiah) Oh! inquire, Oh! let us know the mind of God, whether he will deal with us according to all his wondrous works; God had dealt with his people according to his ⟨p. 387⟩