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.

CHAP. 16. How what Christ hath done for Our Re••oncilition, come to be made Ours. 1. Christ the head of the second Covenant.

There is a fourth thing which I propounded in the twelfe Chapter; and that is, How we come to be reconciled to God in Christ; It is true, Chist hath done it you see: But how do we come to have what Christ hath done made ours, that so we may be reconciled un∣to God?

In a word thus. Christ is looked upon by God the Father as the Head of the Second Covenant, and so we are looked upon in him as Covenanters, and as joyned together in one body in him: this is the way of Christs Reconciling God & us, & the way of the Conveyance of al the fruits of that Reconciliation unto us. This is the Coun∣cel of God concerning the Children of men, that they may come to be reconciled, and saved. As his Son hath un∣dertaken the thing; so it is not only, that he should stand between the Father and us. Its remarkable there must be a Union between him, and us, and he must pre∣sent us to God the the Father as one Body with himself, and the Father must look upon him as the Head of a Covenant to which we belong likwise: So that his obe∣dience, and sufferring is to be looked upon now; not as done by a private person; But looked upon as the obedience, and suffering of a publick Person, of

one that Bears our Names before God the Father. And herein there is a further mistery of godlines. The reconciliation between man, and man, is only when one that is a stranger, comes and stands between, and medi∣ateth; there is not required such a union between him that he mediateth for, and himselfe. But Christ comes not in meerly as a third person between God and us, but he comes to take our very natures upon him, and we are made one in the covenant of grace he as the Head, and we as the members. That look as Adam stood before God as the Head of the first Covenant of works, and so we were al looked upon at first in him, and dyed in him: So Christ who is called the Second Adam stands before the Lord as the Head of the Second Covenant and al those that he doth mediate for, and whom he doth seek to reconcile to the father, stand al before the father in him; so that his work is imputed to be theirs, and the Lord looketh upon them in their Head: fulfiling that Second Covenant of life, and peace that he hath made with poor creatures in him. So that you must not only look upon Christ to be a Saviour, as the Son of God in Heaven; but if you would look upon him with comfort, you must look upon him as the head of a second Cove∣nant, and upon your selves joyned with him as members of him and so presented unto the father through him. Thus God was in Christ reconciling himself to the world, God looking upon Christ, and through Christ, as the head of the Covenant of grace; upon al those that Christ did undertake for, as Covenanters Joyned together with him, comes to be reconciled to al those which shal be everlastingly Saved. This is the mistery of the Gospel, God in Christ reconciling the world to himself. What Christ was hath been opened. And what Christ hath undertaken. and how God looks upon us through this mediator. These things you must search into, and cry unto God that by his Spirit he whuld open these misteries of the Gospel unto you, and

then you shal see much of the mistery of grace, and of the minde of god; and so come to have abundance of peace with God, notwithstanding al the present remain∣ders of uncleannes that are in your hearts.