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

10. Now you come to be in as good a Condition as ever you were before there was any sin committed in the world: we were at Peace with God in Adam, and it is broken. I do not say this which we have now is Peace so properly, as it is Reconciliation, it is a recovering of Peace, and thou being received into this Peace, thou art in as good a condition, in as happy an estate as Adam was in Innocency, yea, and happier too; for though there was a Peace between God and him then, yet there was a possibility for Adam to turn an enemy to God. But it is not so with thee, now thou art therefore safer. Gods heart is as much towards thee, as ever it was towards Adam, yea more, for thou art in a better Covenant now, in regard thou art in a Covenant of grace, though no thank to sin, but God hath so ordered it, and turned it, that as they say of a bone that is broken, if it be well set, it is stronger than it was before: So when the heart is true, and well set in this Reconciliation with God, it is more firm with God, it is in a better Condition than it was before the Breach was made. This is that which may be abundance of joy to the heart of a man. When a man hath been at a difference with a great man, at whose disposed lies his life, and all that he hath, what a joyful thing is it to that man when there comes in one to Reconcile them both, and so to Reconcile them, that he shall be in a better Condition than ever he was, that he shall have the great man to be a surer friend to him than ever he was. Well, Christians, go together and rejoice in this blessed goodness of God, in this happy Reconciliation which Christ is come to make between God and man.

10. Now you come to be in as good a Condition as ever you were before there was any sin committed in the world: we were at Peace with God in Adam, and it is broken. I do not say this which we have now is Peace so properly, as it is Reconciliation, it is a recovering of Peace, and thou being received into this Peace, thou art in as good a condition, in as happy an estate as Adam was in Innocency, yea, and happyer too; for though there was a Peace between God and him then, yet there was a possibility for Adam to turne an enemy to God. But it is not so with thee, now thou art therefore safer. Gods heart is as much towards thee, as ever it was towards Adam, yea more, for thou art in a better Covenant now, in regard thou art in a Covenant of grace, though no thank to sin, but God hath so ordered it, and turned it, that as they say of a bone that is broken, if it be wel sett, it is stronger than it was before: So when the heart is true, and wel set in this Reconciliation with God, it is more firme with God, it is in a better Condition than it was before the Breach was made. This is that which may be abundance of joy to the heart of a man. When a man hath been at a difference with a great man, at whose disposed lyes his life, and al that he hath, what a joyful thing is it to that man when there comes in one to Reconcile them both, and so to Rconcile them, that he shal be in a better Condition than ever he was, that he shal have the great man to be a surer friend to him than ever he was. Wel, Christians, go together and rejoyce in this blessed goodness of God, in this happy Reconciliation which Christ is come to make between God and man.