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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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.
Author
Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.
Publication
London :: Printed by Peter Cole ...,
1657.
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Subject terms
Reconciliation -- Religious aspects.
Sermons, English -- 17th century.
Theology, Doctrinal.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30581.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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USE. 3.

If it be an honor to live many years in this world, O! What an honor is eternity then to live for ever? It hath been counted a great honor to have but any monuments of men after they are dead, to last for a great while, Julius Ceasar he hath appointed his ashes to be kept in an urine in a Room to this day, (as they say) so very honorable is a monument. But then to live to al eternity with God, what honor is in that? If the hoary head be a crown of glory, what crown of glory is it for a man to have eternal life? to have that eternal crown of glory put upon him,

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what are a few years here in this world, in comparison to eternity? but a little plash of water in comparison of the infinite ocean. If thou hast cause to bless God for a few dayes that he hath lengthened out to thee here, what cause hast thou bless him for the hope of eternal life? Again.

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