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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Thirdly, the Third Signe therefore is this. If thou beest at peace with God, then upon Gods being pacified towards thee, and upon thy apprehension of it, it wil make thee looke back to thy former wretched dealings with God, and be confounded in thy own thoughts, and cause thee even to abhor thy self for that cursed carriage of thy heart towards him, and dealings with him when thou wert in away of opposition, and when thou wert walking Contrary to him. I wil give you a most excellent scripture for that: it is in the 16. of Ezek. the latter end. That thou mayest remember and be confoun∣ded, and never open thy mouth any more; Why? Be∣cause of thy shame, when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done; that is the time you see when the soul comes to be ashamed of its wretched dealings with God, and be confounded in the thought thereof, even when the Lord is pacified towards it for al the evil that it hath done towards him. Lay this therefore, (when you lay aside this Book and are got alone,) warm to hearts. A man would think, if God should aske the question, that this should rather be answered when God comes, and reveales the fruits of this wrath towards a soul, no, but when I am pacified, (saith God) towards thee; then thou shalt be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more. So that if thou hast any evidence, any found evidence to thy soul that the Lord is pacified towards thee for al the evil that thou hast done against him, it wil make thee look back to thy former actings, and when thou dost remember them thou wilt be Con∣founded in thy own thoughts, and whatsoever God doth do with thee, thou wilt never open thy mouth any more but be ashamed of thy self for al thy wicked dealings to∣wards God. Many of your Consciences may tel you that there hath been divers horrible things acted by you a∣gainst

the Lord, what sins have not many of you lived in? do you hope that God is reconciled to you, and pa∣cified towards you for al those horrible things that you have done? If he be, you wil upon this grace of God towards you, look back upon what you have done formerly, and be confounded in your own souls, and the mroe you apprehend your peace to be made with God, the more wil you be ashamed, and the more wil you be troubled for what you have done. Many a wret∣ched sinner that hath lived in waies of sin, when the fear of death comes upon him wil be confounded & ashamed of what he hath done; & then he wil complain, & cry out to others, and desire them to pray for him; but that is not the thing that God here speaks of, for let God but set such a one upon his feet again, and free him from his sickness, and fears, he is no longer confounded, and a∣shamed, but wil be as jolly, and as merry as before. But if God indeed be pacified towards thy soul, thou wilt then be confounded, and ashamed for all the evils that thou hast done against him. This is as comfortable an argument that peace is made betwixt God, and us, and that he is reconciled towards us, as any I know, when upon the apprehension of that peace and Reconciliation we come to be confounded in our own Souls.