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.

The Sixt discovery whether Gods present mercyes be in-lets to future mercies.

That mercy that humbleth the heart, that mercy is an in-let to further mercy; And it is very observable that place in Sam. 2, 7. you may read that Chapter in

two or three several places, when God had promised to David great things; marke you, Davids spirit was as low then, never lower, what am I? saith David; and David cries out, Thou art great, O Lord! he crieth not out thou hast made me great, but thou art great, O Lord! and in the 26. verse. Let thy name be magni∣fied for ever; he was low in his own spirit; What am I? but let thy name be magnified for ever; Davids heart was not taken up about this, Oh! God hath promised to me a perpetual Kingdome unto my posterity, and now I am great, and God hath magnified me, no, but what am I? and let thy name be magnified, and be thou great, O Lord. When this shal be the frame of a soule, of a people, when God advanceth them in a way of Mercy, and they cry out, Oh! let me be low, and be any thing so Gods name be magnified, certainly this Mercy is a fore-runner of further mercy. As it is a great argument of the strength of faith, and acceptable to God, when as in one adversity, when God seems to come out against him, that a guilty heart can beleeve, and the heart can be raised, and not sinke in the depth of adver∣sity; I beseech you observe it, as when the heart can rise in the depth of adversity, it is a stronge argument that there is an enduring faith, and a pretious faith: so when the heart can fal in the height of prosperity, and be low, there is abundance of grace in that soul acceptable to God, and God intendeth much good to it;