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.

Reason. 4.

A fourth Reason why it goes in such tearmes as these. That herby the Lord may shew; that those that shal actually come in to be reconciled unto him, they must come in while they are in this world. That those per∣sons that are capable of Reconciliation, are only such persons as live in the world: If they be not reconciled before they are gone out of the world, they are never to be reconciled: therefore is this phrase, God is Recon∣cileing the world to himself. As if he should say: If once you are gone out of the world, and are not recon∣cilied unto God before you are gone, you are lost for ever. The object of this my grace, is only those people that live in the world, if they pass away this time, and

be not reconciled unto me while they live here, they shal never be reconciled; for God was not reconciling himself to men that are in Hell, for they are not of this world, they are gone out of the world; they were suf∣fered by Gods patience to live a great while in the world, and here they filled the world with sin as much as in them lay; Now they are gone out of the world, and are gone from the shine of Gods grace, which shal never come to shine upon them more; they shal never come to hear any offer of the Gospel more. This is a fourth Reason.