A30581:742
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.
it was very sweet in the Nostrils of God, very savoury, my hands dropped with Myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling Myrrh upon the handles of the lock, when I was but endeavouring to open and to reform, then my endeavours were very savoury to the Nostrils of Christ. So the very fingers of our worthies, do they not smell of sweet Myrrh? Are they not savoury in the Nostrils of God, and in the Nostrils of his Saints? They are savoury when their hands are but upon the very handles of the lock; therefore seeing we have such a precious door as this is, we are bound to seek God for the opening of it, and the continuing of ⟨p. 412⟩it open; but yet further.
it was very sweet in the Nostrills of God, very savory, my hands dropped with Myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling Myrrh upon the handles of the lock, when I was but indeavoring to open and to reform, then my indeavors were very savory to the Nostrills of Christ. So the very fingers of our worthies, do they not smel of sweet Myrrh? Are they not savory in the Nostrills of God, and in the Nostrills of his Saints? They are savory when their hands are but upon the very handles of the lock; therefore seeing we have such a precious door as this is, we are bound to seek God for the opening of it, and the continuing of ⟨p. 412⟩it open; but yet further.
Considering (brethren) the wideness and the largness of it; every one that doth but know how the constellation of things are abroad in the affairs in Germany, in France, and Spain, and the Low-countries, and every where; they see that God is (as it were) conspiring together, to make this door of our hope wider and wider to us, and to enlarge our opportunities, God in this bids us come and ask what we will and we shall have it, such a wide door that our fore fathers never knew, Oh! how would they have rejoiced to see this wide door of hope opened? Oh! how unthankful, unworthy wretches should we be, if such a wide door of hope as this should be neglected? Nay,