A30581:786
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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USE. 4,
If the hoary head be such a Crown of Glory, if it puts honour upon men, What then doth eternity it self put upon God? If men be to be honoured because of a few years here in this world, how is God to be honoured then that is eternal? God doth glory himself in his eternity, I am he that inhabiteth eternity. And the Elders in Revel. 4.8. they fell down and worshipped him that was, and is, and shall be for evermore. I remember Pareus tells us of a custom of the Turks, that they use every morning to have one proclaim aloud, The lord that was, and that shall be for ever, the Lord is eternal, he hath no beginning at all. Thou art but of yesterday, though thou hast lived now many years, the Lord he shall have no end at all, but though thou livest long, yet it will be said within a little time, such an one lived so many years and is dead; as it is in Gen. 5. There Methuselah and others lived thus and thus many years, and Adam and others, and they died. And I have read of one that hearing that Chapter read, that such an one lived so many hundred years and he died, and such an one lived so many hundred years and he died, it made such an impression upon his spirit, as took him off from all the things of the world, and caused him to mind the provision of his eternal estate, and was the cause of his conversion, by reading the years of so many mens ages, and yet they dyed. Remember it must be said one day, such a man was seventy or eighty years Old and he dyed, but God abides for ever, we are but as grass. And therefore if God will have honour put upon you because of your Age, put you honour upon God because of his ⟨p. 431⟩