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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… › Application 9: USE. 9.
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.
5. Consider with what a mighty hand this door of hope was opened to you; I remember I have read that Josephus speaking concerning the destruction of the Temple, he saith that at the time a little before the Temple was destroyed, that the Temple door that refused to be opened by thirty men, it was so great that it required the service of thirty men every morning to open the ⟨p. 410⟩door, and every night to shut it, yet a little before the destruction of the Temple, that door flew open alone of its own accord, and they took it as a mighty ominous thing, as the hand of God. Surely this door of hope could not have been opened by all the skill and power of men, they could not conceive the way, God came by his immediate hand and opened it, a mighty hand, an out stretched arm of God hath taken the bars away, and opened this door of hope, now to abuse it, or not to thank the name of God in that, in which Gods hand hath seemed remarkable, Oh! this is a grievous sin, and a mighty provoking of God, since this is the door that Gods mighty hand hath opened. Again further.
5. Consider with what a mighty hand this door of hope was opened to you; I remember I have read that Josephus speaking concerning the destruction of the Temple, he saith that at the time a little before the Temple was destroyed, that the Temple door that refused to be opened by thirty men, it was so great that it required the service of thirty men every mornning to open the ⟨p. 410⟩door, and every night to shut it, yet a little before the destruction of the Temple, that door flew open alone of its own accord, and they took it as a mighty ominous thing, as the hand of God. Surely this door of hope could not have been opened by al the skil and power of men, they could not conceive the way, God came by his immediate hand and opened it, a mighty hand, an out stretched arme of God hath taken the barrs away, and opened this door of hope, now to abuse it, or not to thank the name of God in that, in which Gods hand hath feemed remarkable, Oh! this is a greivious sin, and a mighty provoking of God, since this is the door that Gods mighty hand hath opened. Again further.