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. 80.

ƲSE, 2. And 3.

SEcondly, The more God doth manifest this his grace, the more desperatly wicked is the heart of man to stand out against God. Oh! wretched, cursed heart that can stand out against God; that can stand out against the the offer of grace in the Gospel; I say, this is a cursed heart to stand out against the offer of grace though it were no more. If this should be but declared; that Christ is come into the world to save sinners: God ex∣pects, that al those to whom Christ is so revealed, that they should come flocking unto him, and cry mightily unto God for mercy in Christ: but when God doth not only offer his son; but comes by the Ministry of his word, and by the work of his spirit to draw your hearts unto him, and ye thou dost stand out against God; against al these gracious beginings, drawings, and mel∣ting expressions of God; thou dost stand out; Oh! Cursed stubborn hard heart, that should stand out a∣gainst al these. Thou canst not now pleade; Oh! ten∣tation was strong to draw my heart from God to such and such sinful waies. Was tentation strong? Why did ever tentation draw more alluringly than God hath drawn alluringly by his gospel? It is impossible that the Devil, and al the world should draw more alluringly to

any sin, than God doth draw unto him. Oh! these entreatings of God, this gratious way toward sinners, is that that wil be the greatest aggravation of the sins of men that ever was or can be imagined. Only (for the present) know thus much; that the mercies of God, that shal be the subject of the Saints rejoycing, and blessing of his name to al eternity; that mercy wil be thy greatest misery, and that is a sad thing for any sinner to think on, that that mercy that the Saints shal be eternally admiring, and blessing God for, that that should be my misery, and secret wound, and my greatest terror, and that is the se∣cond thing.

ƲSE. 3.

Oh! rebuke thine own wretched heart that hath stood out so long against God as thou hast done al thy daies. Certainly the consideration of this; of standing out against any command of God when God comes to enlighten a mans Conscience, and the Soul doth come to understand with whom he hath to deal, it hath a mighty power to break the heart of man. That when I come to see that I have stood out against al those loving drawings, al those woings of the Gospel, it is that that wil rent your hearts; Rent your hearts and not your gar∣ments, for the Lord is merciful; that is not only a breaking of the heart but a rending of the heart when the Grace of God doth appear to it.