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

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 ⟨p. 22⟩another: it may be they will live as strangers one towards another. But when ever the soul comes to be Reconciled to God, there is a through Reconciliation, the enmity is not only taken away, but there is an entire love between God and the soul, thou art made a friend unto God, and God is become a friend unto thee Yea.

Thirdly, Further, in the third place: There is a receiving into intire 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 intire 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 intire 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 wil never do one another hurt, they wil never fight the one against the other as formerly they did: But yet perhaps for all this, they wil never come to be: intirely loving one to ⟨p. 22⟩another: it may be they wil live as strangers one towards another. But when ever the soul comes to be Reconciled to God, there is a through Reconciliation, the enmity is not only taken away, but there is an intire love between God and the soul, thou art made a friend unto God, and God is become a friend unto thee Yea.