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

Consider not only (brethren) the wideness of this door, but the treasures into which this door opens; to what doth this door open? if it open to that that hath no great treasure in it there needs not so much striving to get in; but if it open to rich and invaluable treasures, then there is need of striving to get in; surely (brethren) this door of our hop• opens into unvaluable and Glorious treasures; what treasures? the liberty of our estates is a great fever, deliverance from oppression of wicked and unreasonable men is a great fever, Oh! much more is our liberty of conscience; Is our liberty of conscience oppressed? That is the oppression that cieth in Gods ears; The oppression of the poor, the oppression of bread, that crieth, but when the children of God shall cry to their Father, Father, these proud prelatical men are those that take away our bread, they have cried up to God, and God hath heard their cry, and now hath opened a door to deliver us from conscience oppression, and to grant us bread again, to grant bread to us, not only so but it opens to this treasure too, it opens to the treasure of the purity of Gods ordinances, and deliverance of us from those burdens. If I should name but this one burden that is upon ⟨p. 413⟩the Ministers of God, and that woeful burden that is not upon their shoulders only, (if it were only so it were enough) but upon the consciences of men, and that is the admitting of so many profane wretched creatures to the Sacrament; it is an insupportable burden to any conscientious man, that hath to do in such a thing as that was; those that are opposite to God, in the way of profaneness, that we must come and tell them here, take the body of Jesus Christ that was given for thee, no conscientious man but was oppressed by this and not only this, but for you also, for certainly (brethren) there should be an excluding of such from those holy things, and to whom hath God committed the trust of this great ordinance of his? certainly he hath committed the trust to the Church; wheresoever there is a true Church, there this trust is committed, that if you will own your selves for a true Church certainly you are trusted with it. But you will say, we have no power to do it;

Consider not only (bretheren) the wideness of this door, but the treasures into which this door opens; to what doth this door open? if it open to that that hath no great treasure in it there needs not so much striving to get in; but if it open to rich and invaluable treasures, then there is need of striving to get in; surely (bretheren) this door of our hop opens into unvaluable and Glorious treasures; what treasures? the liberty of our estates is a great feavor, deliverance from oppression of wicked and unreasonable men is a great feavor, Oh! much more is our liberty of conscience; Is our liberty of conscience oppressed? That is the oppression that cyeth in Gods eares; The oppression of the poor, the oppression of bread, that cryeth, but when the children of God shal cry to their Father, Father, these proude prelatical men are those that take away our bread, they have cryed up to God, and God hath heard their crie, and now hath opened a door to deliver us from conscience oppression, and to grant us bread again, to grant bread to us, not only so but it opens to this treasure too, it opens to the treasure of the purity of Gods ordinances, and deliverance of us from those burthens. If I should name but this one burthen that is upon