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, 5.

If one Mercy be but an inlet to another Mercy, then this should teach al the people of God, to be content to beare one affliction, though it be but a way making for another affliction; the argument runs thus, It is true there cometh an affliction, and by and by another, and that makes way for another, and so the cloudes rise after the raine, and how many poor weak hearts are plunged and dejected, they can bear one affliction, I, but when another cometh, and another cometh, at length they fal down under the weight of their afflictions, but if thou be one that belongest to God, and hast the assurance of

this point that I have this day been preaching to thee, then use it as an argument to uphold thy heart, It is true one affliction cometh after another, and one affliction maketh way for another, and hath not one mercy come after another too, and hath not one mercy made way for another too? I am sure I have had mercies thick and three fold, and one hath made way for another, and though I have new afflictions making way one for ano∣ther yet let me beare them, considereing how long a time I have had mercies making way one for another; yet fur∣ther in the sixt place, the sixt Use of this may be of great conscequence too.