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Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…
Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughs.Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed for Robert Dawlman, 1653
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The seventh.
Consider how the heart of God is set upon making peace with us, and what it cost him.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself: this work hath taken up the thoughts, counsels, heart of God from all eternity above any thing that ever he did: this is the chief master-piece of all the works of God. There is more of the glory of God in this, then in all that God hath done. This is and shall be the object of the admiration of Angels and Saints, ⟨p. 277⟩the matter of their praises to all eternity. The heart of God was so in this, that he was resolved to have it whatsoever it cost him; it cost the dearest that ever any thing in this world did; yea the price of it was more then ten thousand worlds are worth: it was no less then the blood of the Son of God, of him who is the second person in Trinity, God blessed for evermore. Col. 1. 14. In whom we have redemption through his blood who is the image of the invisible God, the first borne of every creature: by him were all things created, he is before all things: by him all things consist, in him all fullness dwells: and having made peace through the blood of his Cross, ver. 20. What God hath done for peace with us, calls aloud to us to prize peace one with another. It is the Apostles argument,