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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
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OLD AGE IS A Crown of Glory, Especially When found in ways OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. Preached before the Company of Mercers at their Chapel. May, 20. 1641
OLD AGE IS A Crown of Glory, Especially When found in waies OF RIGHTEOVSNESS. Preached before the Company of Mercers at their Chappel. May, 20. 1641
Proverbs, 16, 31. The hoary Head is a Crown of Glory, if it be found in the Way of Righteousness;
I Have lately in this City Preached unto Young men, and at this time supposing this auditory to be intended chiefly for grave Citizens (though others come in) I have prepared to speak suitable unto them; Psal. 148.12. Young men and Old men are called to praise the name of the Lord; as it was a blessed time when the children cried Hosanna, upon Christs coming to purge the Temple (for that was the occasion) so it shall be and is a blessed time, ⟨p. 422⟩when Old men are coming into God, in the praise of his great works, when God shall reign Gloriously before the ancients of Israel: we have such a prophecy in Isa. 24. verse the last. When the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion, in Jerusalem, before the ancients Gloriously; A blessed time when the ancients shall behold the Glorious reign of Christ, and be joyful in it: and in Revela. 4. It is prophesied again of the Elders (in the latter end of the chapter) that the Elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever, and cast down their crowns before him. This text of mine it is a proverbial sentence, setting out of the Glory of Old men in the ways of righteousness, we may spare dependence, for the proverbs are not as jewels linked in a Bracelet together, but as so many several Diamonds lying one by another, and some of them several Diamonds lying (as it were) in a box together; Now this proverb hath in it two Diamonds set upon the crown of Old men, one below it, and the other a top of it, that below it is the Hoary Head, and a top of it is found in the way of righteousness. The hoary head is a crown to Old men, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Two doctrinal points we have in the words, the First is.