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.

USE. 2.

If this be so when God is in a way of mercy, one mercy wil let out another, hence al the Saints of God are taught and admonished to observe, and take diligent notice of the connexion of Gods mercies towards them, for cer∣tainly

this is Gods way to them, one mercy maketh way for another, and if thou belongest to God, that hath been his way to thee, all thy life time even from his Electing thee; only now it is thy duty to be ob∣servant, how God hath made one mercy a door of hope to another mercy, and it is a special work to observe Gods waies towards a Christian, a special work of the Sabbath, many of you (especially you that are not book-learned) you say you know not how to spend the Sabbath after the publique exercise is done, but must walk up and down the streets &c. here is a work for them that are not book-learned to spend the Sabbath in; If thou beest godly, then sometimes every Sabbath recol∣lect all the waies of Gods merciful providence towards thee, ever since thy Youth and Childhood, and how one hath had a connexion to another, how one mercy hath let in another mercy, and that lets in a third, and that third a fourth, and you shal see how the track of Gods goodness hath been towards you al your daies, and that wil be a most sweet meditation for you, wherein God shal have a great deal of Glory; the 92. Psalme is a Psalme appointed for the Sa••••ath, and you shal find that it is a Psalme of contemplation of the works of God, and the waies of Gods mercies trwards his peo∣ple; it is a special way to understand the connexion of things, and the connexion of causes, how one cause hath dependance upon another cause, and that upon a∣nother, and that upon another, and this is the difference between Sence and Reason, the bruit Beasts that have only sence, they taste the sweetness of a thing, but they never enquire after the cause, but now the more rational any man is, the more desires kindle in him to find out the connexion of causes. If this be a sweet thing to a soul in a natural way, to find out the connexion of causes. O! how sweet is it to a gracious soul, to find out the connexion and concatination of al the mercies, and goodnesses of the Lord towards him, in al the passages of his life; and do it the rather because that the truth is (Brethren) this

that I am speaking of now, it is that wherein a principal part of the glorious inheritance of the Saints consisteth in the glory of Heaven, wherein the happiness of the glorified souls there shal consist, it wil be this, that eter∣nal Sabbath that shal be spent in Heaven wil amongst other things be spent in this work that I am speaking of, in a contemplation of al the connexion and concati∣nation of Gods merces towards those that are now in Heaven. Now they have been connected and concatinated ever since they have had a being, and so brought up to that height of glory, Oh! what an infi∣nite content the Saints shal have when God shal re∣veal al, when they shal see into the councels of God, and the wil of God so freely and into al his waies, how they were chosen from al eternity and so to eternity, and there they shal see every passage of Providence that they did not understand the meaning of before, how it made way to such a mercy and that to another, and that to another, and so til they were brought to that fulness of glory, they shal (I say) be eternally contemplating thus of the connexion of Gods mercies, and praising and blessing of God, that did thus work and coennex things together for their good; If thou hopest to come to Hea∣ven, to be thus excercised, to give God glory there, Oh! begin this work here for we pray Gods wil may be done on earth now, as it is done in Heaven. As on the con∣trary, it wil be a great part of the torment of the dam∣ned, that they shal there see how one work of Justice made way for another, how one passage of Gods Provi∣dence made way to one Judgment, and that to another, and that to another, and so til they were plunged into the bottomless pit for ever, and the very sight how God wrought from one to another, wil be torment enough to them; Wel, that is the Second, to consider of the connexion of Gods mercies. A Third Use of the Point is this.