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

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By way of encouragement, and by way of exhortation, much peace and comfort is due unto such, the Lord and saints look upon them as honourable. Thou art a Father in Israel, and God remembers all that thou hast done for him these for•y, these sixty years. I remember Luther saith, That one gracious action is more excellent than heaven and earth, Millies quam caelum et terra (saith he) one gracious action; and there is a truth in it, there is no gracious action but hath more excellency in it, than the frame of heaven and earth. Then those that have continued long in the ways of God, and have grown Old in them, Oh! how excellent are they that have performed so many gracious actions, and all are treasured up with the Lord; know the Lord hath Old mercies for thee, who hast been an Old disciple, and he will not forsake thee when thou art Old. Psal. 71.9. Cast me not off in the time of Old age, forsake me not when my strength faileth. And in verse. 18. now also when I am Old and grey headed, Oh God! forsake me not. If thy conscience tells thee, tha• •hou hast endeavoured to serve God from thy youth, to do good in the place God hath set thee in, thou mayest now go with comfort unto God; Oh Lord! now forsake me not whe• am Old, leave me not when I am Old. Now thou •ast the blessings of the people of God upon thee, and whensoever thou goest out of the world, Oh! the sweet savour that thou wilt leave behind thee, thou art a glory and honour to all thy children, and shalt be after thou art dead and gone in Proverbs, 17.6. Children's children are the crown of Old men, and the Glory of children are their fathers. [The glory of children are their Fathers] I, when their Fathers are gracious and Godly, then ••ey are the glory of their children. As