Front matter
Gospel Reconciliation:
Or, Christ's Trumpet of Peace to the World by Jeremiah Burroughs Wherein is shown (besides many other Gospel truths):
1. That there was a breach made between God and man.
2. That there is a way to make up this breach.
3. Reconciliation, opened in eight particulars. Twelve blessed consequences thereof. How to know whether a man's peace is made with God. Five helps to make our peace with God.
4. God begins the work of reconciliation with man.
5. Our reconciliation with God is through Christ. How Christ is a fit reconciler. Christ has undertaken, 1. To satisfy God's justice. 2.
To bring our hearts and subdue them to God.
6. God's reconciling the [world] to himself.
7. Why God will not himself immediately dispense this Gospel reconciliation.
8. The ministers of the Gospel are ambassadors of Christ. What kind of ministry God speaks most through. How we ought to hear the Word. The horrible wickedness of those who are idle in the ministry.
9. The exceeding willingness of God and Christ to be reconciled to sinners. Sixteen arguments manifesting God's exceeding willingness to be reconciled to sinners.
10. Christ's willingness to be reconciled to sinners, further explained.
11. Objections answered, concerning the exceeding willingness of God and Christ to be reconciled to sinners.
To which are added two sermons.
By Jeremiah Burroughs Published (with a testimony) by:
Thomas Goodwin, William Bridge, William Greenhill, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nye, John Yates, William Adderley.
London: Printed by Peter Cole, Printer and Bookseller, at the Printing Press in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange. 1657.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself Chapter 2: That There Was a Breach Made Between God and Man
After a Blessed Union
Chapter 3: That There Is a Way to Make Peace Between God and Sinful Man Chapter 4: Reconciliation Opened Chapter 5: Twelve Blessed Consequences of Our Reconciliation
Chapter 6: Use 1 Chapter 7: Use 2 Chapter 8: How to Know Whether a Man's Peace is Made with God,
Opened in Seven Particulars Chapter 9: Use 3: To seek to make our peace with God: five helps towards it Chapter 10. God Begins the Work of Reconciliation with Man
Chapter 11. Uses of God's Beginning with Man to Be Reconciled Chapter 12. Doctrine: Our Reconciliation with God is made in Christ.
Seven Points for Expounding the Doctrine.
Chapter 13. The Necessity of Christ's Coming in for Our Reconciliation Chapter 14. How Christ Becomes a Fit Reconciler
Chapter. 15. What Christ Has Undertaken and Performed in Our Reconciliation Chapter 16. How What Christ Has Done for Our Reconciliation
Comes to Be Made Ours
Chapter 17. How We Come to Have an Interest in What Christ Has Done, Further Explained Chapter 18: Eight Consequences of Our Reconciliation Being Made in Christ Chapter 19. Three Reasons Why God Would Be Reconciled to the World in Christ and No Other Way Chapter 20: Application Chapter 21: Use 2: Discovering Mistakes about Reconciliation
Chapter 22: Use 3: To Encourage Sinners to Come to God for Reconciliation, and Discouragements Removed
Chapter 23. Use 4: Do Not Despair of God's Making Peace in This Nation Chapter 24. Use 5: Those Who Have Assurance of Their Peace with God Should Highly Prize It Chapter 25. Christians May Lose the Assurance of Their Peace with God Through the Weakness of Their Faith Chapter 26. We May Lose the Assurance of Our Peace with God
Through Our Sinful Walk.
Chapter 27. Use 6: Give God the Glory for Our Reconciliation.
Chapter 28. Use 7: To Love Christ and Do or Suffer for Him.
Chapter 29. Use 8: In Seeking Reconciliation through Christ.
Chapter 30: God [was] Reconciling the World to Himself from All Eternity, Explained Chapter 31. The Work of Our Reconciliation with God in Christ Has
Been in Progress from All Eternity Chapter 32: Five Uses of the Former Doctrine Chapter 33. Of God's Reconciling the World to Himself
Chapter 34. God's Reconciling the World to Himself—Not Every Individual Person, as Proven by Scripture, and Three Reasons
Chapter 35: Why God's Reconciling to Himself is Expressed in Such a Broad Term as the World—Six Reasons for This
Chapter 36 Use 1: Seeing God has excepted none from mercy, let none except themselves Chapter 37. USE 2 Chapter 38. Not Imputing Their Trespasses: Explained with Three
Notes on the Text Chapter 39: The Minister's Commission to Preach Reconciliation to the World Chapter 40. Why God Chose Men Rather than Angels to Dispense the Mystery of Reconciliation: The Reasons Thereof
Chapter 41: Why God Will Not Himself Immediately Dispense This Gospel Reconciliation Chapter 42. Use 1: The Sending of the Ministers of the Gospel Is to Be Accounted a Glorious Blessing
Chapter 43. Use 2: The Great Honour of Faithful Ministers Chapter 44: The Ministy of Reconciliation
Chapter 45. Verse 20 Opened, and Five Doctrines Propounded Chapter 46. The Ministers of the Gospel Are Ambassadors of Christ,
Opened in Six Particulars Chapter 47. Use 1 Chapter 48. The Second Doctrine (Propounded in the 45th Chapter)
Prosecuted Chapter 49. The Second Doctrine (propounded in the 45th chapter) further prosecuted.
Chapter 50. Use 1. Answering the Objections of the Arminians and the Wantons of our Age.
Chapter 51. Use 2. Ministers Ought to Speak as the Oracles of God.
The Manner of Their Preaching Opened.
Chapter 52. How to know what kind of Ministry God speaks most in.
Chapter 53. USE 3. We should delight in the Word.
Chapter 54. USE 4. If God and Christ speak in the Word, how dreadful ought it to be to the neglecters, disobeyers, and despisers of the Word?
Chapter 55. How We Ought to Hear the Word Chapter 56. The Third Doctrine (Proposed in the 45th Chapter)
Explored: The Excellence of the Gospel Makes Ministers Earnest in
Their Ministry Chapter 57. Reasons for the Earnestness of Faithful Ministers Chapter 58. Use 1: The Horrible Wickedness of Those Who Are Idle in the Ministry Chapter 59. Use 2 Chapter 60. The Fourth Doctrine (Propounded in the 45th Chapter)
Chapter 61. The First Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 62. The Second Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 63. The Third Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 64. The Fourth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 65. The Fifth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 66. The Sixth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 67. The Seventh Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 68. The Eighth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 69. The Ninth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 70. The Tenth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 71. The Eleventh Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 72. The Twelfth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 73. The Thirteenth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 74. The Fourteenth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 75. The Fifteenth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 76. The Sixteenth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God to Be Reconciled to Sinners
Chapter 77: Christ's Willingness to be Reconciled to Sinners, Further Opened Chapter 78. Objections Answered Concerning the Willingness of God and Christ to Be Reconciled to Sinners Chapter 80. Use 2 and 3 Chapter 81. Use 4: To Strengthen Our Faith; If God Were Reconciled
When We Were Enemies, He Will Not Cast Us Off for Every