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. 4,

If the hoary head be such a Crown of Glory, if it puts honor upon men, What then doth eternity it selfe put upon God? If men be to be honored because of a few years here in this world, how is God to be honored then that is eternal? God doth glory himselfe in his eterni∣ty, I am he that inhabiteth eternity. And the Elders in Revel. 4.8. they fel down and worshipped him that was, and is, and shal be for evermore. I remem∣ber Pareus tels us of a custom of the Turks, that they use every morning to have one proclaim aloud, The lord that was, and that shal be for ever, the Lord is eternal, he hath no beginning at al. Thou art but of yesterday, though thou hast lived now many years, the Lord he shal have no end at al, but though thou livest long, yet it wil be said within a little time, such an one lived so many years and is dead; as it is in Gen. 5. There Methuselah and others lived thus and thus many years, and Adam and others, and they died. And I have read of one that hearing that Chapter read, that such an one lived so many hundred years and he died, and such an one lived so many hundred years and he died, it made such an impression upon his spirit, as took him off from al the things of the world, and caused him to mind the provision of his eternal estate, and was the cause of his conversion, by reading the years of so many mens ages, and yet they dyed. Remember it must be said one day, such a man was seventy or eighty years Old and he dyed, but God abides for ever, we are but as grass. And therfore if God wil have honor put upon you because of your Age, put you honor upon God because of his

eternity: God he can have no time added to his time, there is no succession of time with him, God cannot be said to have continued, or to have lived a longer time now, than he did live before the world began, there is no time added to him, he is beyond all measure of time, and it is good for us when we injoy any continuance of time in any comfort, to worship the eternal God, to have our hearts to delight in that eternal God that is beyond al time. It is a very observable place that we have in Genesis concerning Abraham, it is in Gen. 21 That when Abraham had been going up and down a while, and afterwards had a resting place, the text saith Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba: that notes that he was to abide where he planted a grove: and what then? and he called there upon the name of the Lord, the ever∣lasting God. This is the first time that God is called in Scripture the everlasting God, and then did Abraham call upon the name of the Lord, the everlasting God, when God did grant unto him ••ome abiding in that place where he was, that he could stay and plant a grove. Hath God caused an abiding in you, that you have lived a long time in this Ci••y in a prosperous condition? do you learn to cal upon the name of God the everlasting God, give honor to the eternal God? But we must pass from this first point though it be a point of great use; yet the se∣cond is the principal, The hoary head is a crown Glory; but when? When it is found in a way o•• righteousness. That is the Second.