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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.
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Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.
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effectually work that makes the effectual working upon the heart when the people receive the word as the word of God And the 4 Gal. 14. Mark how the Galatians received the Apostle saith he there And my tentation which was in my flesh you despised not nor rejected but received me as an Angel of God even as Christ Jesus Here he speaks in way of commendation of the Galatians you receive me as an Angel of God even as Jesus Christ as if you had received Christ Jesus and mark the Apostle was in a poor mean condition in respect of his outward estate My tentation that was in my flesh In my outward man I was very low and this might have been a tentation to you for to have caused you to have rejected me when I spake Oh! this hath been a tentation to many men because the preacher is an Earthen Vessel though he hath brought the right treasure of the Gospel yet this hath been a tentation But saith he it was not so with you you received me though poor weak a mean man that had scarce bread to eate yet you received me as an Angel of God yea beyond that as Christ Jesus himself But yet you shal observe in the next words that it seems their hearts began to be drawn aside iâ— the 15. vers There was a time when I came first amongst you when you wer ready to have pluct out your very eyes for me and you cryed out O! this blessed doctrine of the gospel that we now hear but where is the blessedness It seems that some fals teachers had come and inveigled them and had taken them off from the Apostle Oh! Where is the blessedness you spake of as if that were now gone but that is the Duty of people and then and only then it is like that the Ministry of the word can do any great good When the people look upon it as if God spake and Jesus Christ spake unto them I wil only conclude with this one thing that til you do come to apprehend this it is not like that ever any great good to any purpose wil be done It s like it wil be with you as it was with Samuel you know God called to Samuel Samuel Samuel saith God he runs to Ely saith he my Son I did not cal thee wel he went again and slept and God calls again He did not know it was Gods voice he runs to Ely again but then the text faith that Ely perceived that God called the Child Ely gave him this instruction that if he called again he should say Lord speak for thy servant heareth And then he went and slept again and the Lord came and called to him and then he said speak Lord thy Servant heareth And then God opened his heart unto him Oh! God called the first time and he thought it had been Ely and looked no further God said no more to him but left him and so again the second time But when he came to understand that it was Gods voice then you shal observe that God opened himself wonderfully to him and shewed him then his minde to the ful So just thus it is with people they come now to hear the Ministry of the word they hear a sound in their ears and what they hear is very good but they look only at a man the man speak and they may perhaps commend the man and commend his Sermon al this whil God speaks not to their hearts And then they wil go the second time and it is true God doth speak to them but they do not know it is Gods Voice and because they do not know it is Gods voice God doth not make known himself unto them But when the time of Gods Love comes this is the great Embassage that is sent to the Children of men And when he pleads with you you should think that it is Christ that is pleading with you when he is opening of any Scripturre to you you should think that it is Christ that is pleading with you when he is opening of any scripture to you you should think that Jesus Christ is opening that Scripture to you and when you com with such a heart then God opens al his mind to you I appeal to you whether it hath not been just thus the dealings of God with you as it it was with Samuel you have come once and again to a sermon but have looked no further then Ely to the minister but when you have come to the word with the disposition and said Lord speake for thy servant hears Lord reveal what thou wilt I se it is thine one ordinance and the minister though he be but a poor weak man yet he comes and stands in thy stead and speaks in thy name and I say when you come thus you shal find more in one sermon let out to you then in a thousand before and here is the ground that many have lived thirty or forty years under a powerful ministry and it hath sounded in their eares but they never have heard the mind of God savingly revealed unto them Because they never have fallen down and said lord speak for thy servant hears O! do this and thou shalt hear the great messuage from God then you shal have God oppening himselfe unto you to the ful CHAP. 49. The Second Doctrin propounded in the 45 chapter further prosecuted I Have made some enterance into this second point Doct. That God and Christ doth speake in the ministers of his word What the minesters of God do acrding to their rule and Word it is to be looked upon as if God and Christ did it This is Cleere in the text As though God did beseech you we pray you in Christs steed saith the Apostle For this I gave you divers scriptures I might ad many more ct thought to have added some more cleer scriptures to shew you that what the ministers do it is as if God Christ did it I might name forty places that are cleer in this point but shal not that I may proceed What the minister of God speak according to the ruls I say it is as if God and Christ spake and it must needs be sure if we consider of the power that there is of Christ in the ministry we have had experience of it that there is such a power of the ministry of the word that it coâ—ld not be but only by the speaking of God God and Christ in It the which hath power to inlighten to awaken conscience to terrefie the conscience to humble to bring down the stoutest proud heart in the world yea and to convert souls in John 5.25 the text saith of the word of the son of God that brings life Verily I say unto you that the houre is comming and now is when the dead shal hear the voice of the son of God and they that hear shal live 〈◊〉 certainly this is spoken not only of the voice of the son of
tâ—â—â—â—ners Page â—â—â— Chap. 79. Vse 1 Admire Gods infinite Grace in entreatng to be reconciled to Sinners Considering 1. What it is God intreates for 2. Who are intreated 3. By whom you are intreated 4 What need hath God of you Page 364 Chap. 80 Vse 2 and 3. Page 366 Chap. 81 Vse 4 To strengthen our Faith if God were reconciled when we were enemies he wil not cast us off for every infirmity Objections Answered Page 368 GOSPEL-RECONCILIATION OR Christs Trumpet of Peace TO THE WORLD 2 Cor. 5.19 20. To-witt that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath commited unto Us the word of Reconciliation Now then we as Ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead be yee Reconciled unto God CHAP. 1. THIS Apostle Paul who was the Pen-man of this and the former Epistle was a chosen vessel to bear the name of Christ in the World a glorius instrument to publish the grace of God in Jesus Christ One of the most famous Ambassadors that ever was upon the earth One that honoured Jesus Christ as much as ever man did that we either ever read of or ever heard of all his care was to Magnifie yea indeed to Omnifie Jesus Christ the very name of Christ was as sugar in his mouth and rolled up and down under his tongue He himself had tasted upon his spirit much of the sweetnesse of the grace of God in Christ and he labors much to make this known unto others that they might likewise experience the sweetnesse thereof And in these two verses there is as much set forth of the grace of God in the Gospel as I know in any two verses together in all the Book of God We have here set out unto us 1. The Doctrine of Reconciliation between God and man 2. The Apostles Commission for to declare this Doctrine of Reconciliation 3. The Faithful discharge of this his Commission The first two are in the 19. verse And the third is in the 20. verse As for this 19. verse we heave here First the Doctrine of Reconciliation to wit That God was in Christ Reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses to them And in that you have these Two things First the Doctrine of Reconciliation set down more generally Namely that God was in Christ Reconciling the world to himself Secondly An instance in one special great work of God in Reconciling the world unto himself We shal make an enterance into the first of these and so proceed namely The Doctrine of Reconciliation set down more generally That God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself This word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reconciliation Notes and implies that there was a formal breach between God and us we cannot understand what it is to be Reconciled except we do beforehand know somwhat about the Breach which this Reconciliation must make up It doth implie an enmity that there was between man and God for if two be reconciled then certainly it implys that once there was an enmity between them Conciliari is to bring into favor but Reconciliari is to bring into favor again those that have bin in favor before and between whom there hath been a Breach therefore to bring into feavor again is in playn tearms Reconciliation And in the opening of this doctrine therfore there are these particulars that playnly lie before us in the Text for I wil go no further in the opening of the Doctrine of Reconciliation but meerly to that which you have lying obviously and plainly before you in the words In which you have these Particulars First That which is implied namely That there was a blessed Union at the first between God and Man but this was broken and there was an enmity after that union between God and Man I put these Two â—â—ether namely that after the first union that was between God and Man there was an enmity between God and Man Secondly There is yet a way to have this Breach made up there is a possibillity for man that is at enmity with God to be Reconciled Thirdly We shal open to you wherein this Reconciliation doth consist what that Reconciliation is which the text speaks of and which the Gospel doth tender unto us Fourthly We shal shew the principal cause of this how this Reconciliation did begin It was God himself that did begin with us we did not begin with him to make peace God did first begin with us or there would never have peace been made between him and Man Fiftly We shal shew in whom this Reconciliation is made it is in Jesus Christ which indeed is the principal thing of al and that wherein the mistery of the Gospel lies and when we come to that we shal open the Mistery of this Reconciliation And then Sixtly Further from what time this Reconciliation hath been It was saith the Teâ—â— God was in Christ it was not onlâ— made at the present but there was a work between God and Christ concerning the Reconciliation of man from all eternity Seventhly Who they are here that are said to be reconciled that is the World to wit that God was in Christ Reconciling the world to himself CHAP. 2. That there was a breach made between God and man after a blessed Vnion IN the first Chapter we have much work cut out Some of the particulars I wil pass over very briefly for my scope and drift is to open to you the Evangelical part of this Text and to insist specially upon what is plainly expressed rather than to insist on what is implyed But because we cannot treat of what is expressed without treating a little of what is implyed Therefore in a few lines of that and so pass on 1 That which is implyed is That there is a Breach made between God and us after Union I put these two together There was at first a blessed union between God and man-kind God did make man in a happy estate according to his own Image that is in perfect holinesse and righteousnesse When he had made al other Creatures he makes man as his chosen Creature stamps upon him his own image to the end that he might by man have his glory from al the other Creatures that were made that he might in this world have a creature which might be able to know him and to worship him and to serve him and to take notice of the lustre of his glory that arose from al his other works and to reflect this glory upon his face and he made man a Creture fit to do this work Man was very hapy in his first creation in this thing that God made him of al his creaturs fit for such a business to reflect his own glory upon his own face and so to injoy communion with himself which no creature in the world except the Angels which were in Heaven were capable of And