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Christ the universal peace-makerChrist the universall peace-maker
Christ the universal peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.Christ the universall peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodvvin, B.D.
London: printed by J.G. for R. Dawlman, 1651
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V. SECTION. The influence, That our being reconciled to God, IN ONE BODY, hath into our reconciliation mutual: in two eminent respects.
V. SECTION. The influence, That our being reconciled to God, IN ONE BODY, hath into our reconciliation mutuall: in two eminent respects.
IF any shall ask what influence and virtue this their being considered as one body, met in His body, and under that consideration reconciled to God hath into their reconciliation one to another; I answer, much every way; neither is it mentioned last (as last in order,) but as the foundation of all other considerations thereto belonging.
IF any shall aske what influence and virtue this their being considered as one body, met in His body, and under that consideration reconciled to God hath into their reconciliation one to another; I answer, much every way; neither is it mentioned last (as last in order,) but as the foundation of all other considerations thereto belonging.
1. In that they were thus all once met in one body, in the body of Christ both in his intendment, and his Fathers view, This consideration, (if no more,) hath force enough in it to bring them together again, in after times. Even this clandestine union (such indeed in respect of our knowledge of it then, yet having all three persons the witnesses in Heaven present) this precontract, this anticipated oneness, this ⟨p. 52⟩forehand union hath such virtue in it, that let them afterwards fall out never so much, they must be brought together again and be one; Heaven and Earth may be dissolved, this union thus once solemnized, can never be frustrated or dissolved: what God and Christ did thus put together, sin and devil, men and angels cannot always, and for ever keep asunder. His Fathers donation of them to Him, and Christs own representation of the same persons to His Father again, have a proportionable like virtue in them: for there is the same reason of both. Now of the one Christ says, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me,