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

6. It is a door that many adversaries have laboured to shut a long time, Oh! what devices, counsels, plots, all the ways that possibly could be devised to shut this door, but God hath kept it open, and put in a bar to keep it open notwithstanding our adversaries; We may say of this as Saint Paul in another case speaking of another door, in 1 Cor. 16.9. There was an effectual door opened, and there were many adversaries for it, so we may say that here is a door opened, and many adversaries there be. Yea further in the next place.

6. It is a door that many adversaries have laboured to shut a long time, Oh! what devices, councels, plotts, al the waies that possibly could be devised to shut this door, but God hath kept it open, and put in a bar to keep it open notwithstanding our adversaries; We may say of this as Saint Paul in another case speaking of another door, in 1 Cor. 16.9. There was an effectual door opened, and there were many adversaries for it, so we may say that here is a door opened, and many adversaties there be. Yea further in the next place.

7. This door, Oh! it is a door of mercy by mercy, and therefore be thankful, (I say) it is a door of mercy by mercy. Brethren, had God opened a door of hope, though it had been the valley of Achor in the other sense, though God had given us the valley of Achor for a door of hope, in the other sense that the words are ordinarily taken in, that is, the valley of trouble, if God had brought never such troubles upon England, and we had been in never such trouble and confusion for the present, yet if God had made this a door of hope to bring in mercy, we had infinite cause of thankfulness. But yet this is his goodness, that we have a door of hope of mercy by mercy we may say of this door, as the scripture saith of that door in 1 Kings, 6.31. And for the entering of the