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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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5. Show your righteousness in this, that you are willing to open your hearts, to embrace what truths God shall come further reveal to you. Say not, what shall we have now? Shall we be wiser than our forefathers? Take heed of such arguments from your fore-fathers, you know that place in 1 Peter. 1.18. Christ was said to come to lay down his life, to redeem us from our ⟨p. 445⟩vain conversation, received by tradition from our fathers; therefore stick not so much to old customs, to what was in your fore-fathers times, but if God come to manifest any further truth, be ready to embrace it, and bless his name for it, for there are truths that do rise in several generations. If your fore-fathers in time of reformation, should have said (as many of them said) should we be wiser than our fore-fathers? We should have continued in Popery still, and yet we did think well that they before us did decline from their forefathers, therefore we must look to the truths that are come up, that are manifested in several Generations; not that any truth is new, but the manifestation of some truths are more evident in some generations than in others, and therefore in 1 Peter, 1.12. The Apostle speaks of being established in the present truth. As in Luther's time there was a present truth, the point of justification that was the present truth of that age, and so in these times there are present truths made known, both concerning our outward and spiritual liberties. There was a great deal of false divinity before preached amongst you, even concerning your estates, that you had nothing of your own, but all was at the absolute will of those above you, you had no propriety at all; and for spiritual liberty, we know in what bondage we were there. Therefore labour now to understand these truths, and give God the glory of them, before you do embrace these present truths. It is strange that men should be so much set upon former things, as to neglect the grace of God for the present, and all because of those that were before.
5. Shew your righteousness in this, that you are willing to open your hearts, to imbrace what truths God shal come further reveal to you. Say not, what shal we have now? Shal we be wiser than our forefathers? Take heed of such arguments from your fore-fathers, you know that place in