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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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It is an honourable thing to be Old in the ways of righteousness, because these have much acquaintance with God, they come to be of Gods long acquaintance. Now we delight much if we can meet with one that is of ⟨p. 436⟩our old acquaintance, we say Oh! Such an one is my Old acquaintance, he was my fathers acquaintance, therefore we prize him now. Now an Old man that hath been a Godly man a long time, he is our Old acquaintance, an Old acquaintance of God our Father, and therefore we honour him; in Exodus, 15.23. Where Moses praises God (saith he) he is our God, and our Fathers •od. Is it an honour to God that he was our Fathers God? Then it is an honour to you that you are Gods that are our Fathers, that you are our Fathers Saints; if God be honoured for being our Fathers God, then you are honoured for being one of our Fathers Saints, Gods Saint who is our Father. We read of Moses that having been but forty days conversing with God upon the Mount, and his Face did shine, if conversing with God forty days makes his face shine, what will it be to converse with God forty years? Oh! how must their faces needs shine being so long acquainted with him.
It is an honorable thing to be Old in the waies of righteousness, because these have much acquaintance with God, they come to be of Gods long acquaintance. Now we delight much if we can meet with one that is of ⟨p. 436⟩our old acquaintance, we say Oh! Such an one is my Old acquaintance, he was my fathers acquaintance, therefore we prize him now. Now an Old man that hath been a Godly man a long time, he is our Old acquaintance, an Old acquaintance of God our Father, and therefore we honor him; in Exodus, 15.23. Where Moses praises God (saith he) he is our God, and our Fathers •od. Is it an honor to God that he was our Fathers God? Then it is an honor to you that you are Gods that are our Fathers, that you are our Fathers Saints; if God be honored for being our Fathers God, then you are honored for being one of our Fathers Saints, Gods Saint who is our Father. We reade of Moses that having been but forty daies conversing with God upon the Mount, and his Face did shine, if conversing with God forty daies makes his face shine, what wil it be to converse with God forty years? Oh! how must their faces needs shine being so long acquainted with him.