A30581:793
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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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.
What an honourable speech was this for him to be able to say, these eighty six years have I served Christ and found him a good Master. Will you appeal whether you can say, these sixty, these seventy years, or forty years I have served Christ, and found him a good Master, if you can, this is honourable if you be found in the way of righteousness.
What an honorable speech was this for him to be able to say, these eighty six yeares have I served Christ and found him a good Master. Wil you appeale whether you can say, these sixty, these seventy years, or forty years I have served Christ, and found him a good Master, if you can, this is honorable if you be found in the way of righteousness.
1. This is a great evidence of the deep rooting of your Grace, and so puts a greater honour upon you, it is an argument Grace had a very deep root, in that it hath held out all this while, and flourished all this while. You know the seed that was sown in the stony ground, it came up a little for the present, but vanished away, but that that was sown in the good ground, it came up and flourished though in the heat of the Sun. Many have a good beginning as Nero, though he were an abominable wretch afterwards, yet his first five years were very eminent for forwardness in Godliness, but afterwards fell off. But now if you shall go on and hold out till you be aged, Oh! it is a blessed evidence of the deepness of the root of Grace in your hearts. That is the first.
1. This is a great evidence of the deep rooting of your Grace, and so puts a greater honor upon you, it is an argument Grace had a very deep root, in that it hath held out al this while, and flourished al this while. You know the seed that was sown in the stony ground, it came up a little for the present, but vanished away, but that that was sowen in the good ground, it came up and flourished though in the heate of the Sun. Many have a good beginning as Nero, •hough he were an abominable wretch afterwards, yet his first five years were very eminent for forwardness in Godliness, but afterwards fel off. But now if you shal go on and hold out til you be aged, Oh! it is a blessed evidence of the deepness of the root of Grace in your hearts. That is the first.