Gospel Reconciliation

No more important issue exists than how a person can be made right with God. The answer to that dilemma is the basis for all religions, which may be categorized under one of two headings: the religion of divine accomplishment or the religion of human achievement.

In this rare treatise, beloved Puritan pastor Jeremiah Burroughs shows that there is a breach between man and God and that there is a way provided to repair that breach. He states that reconciliation with God comes only through the work of Christ, as an infinite God must have infinite satisfaction for sin, which only God Himself can provide through His own Son. Nothing less than the righteousness of God Himself will ever satisfy the justice of God. The person and work of Christ are the sinner’s only hope.

“One who has embraced the gospel is at peace with God! Peace is an amiable thing; but how lovely, how amiable is peace with God!”
—Jeremiah Burroughs

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: There was a breach made between God and man after a blessed union
Chapter 3: There is a way to make peace between God and sinful man
Chapter 4: Reconciliation opened
Chapter 5: Twelve blessed consequences of our reconciliation
Chapter 6: Use 1: Peaceableness
Chapter 7: Use 2: The Blessed State of a Believer
Chapter 8: How to know whether a man’s peace is made with God
Chapter 9: Use 3: Five helps to making our peace with God
Chapter 10: God begins the work of reconciliation with man
Chapter 11: Uses of God’s beginning with man to be reconciled
Chapter 12: Our reconciliation with God is made in Christ
Chapter 13: The necessity of Christ’s coming for our reconciliation
Chapter 14: How Christ comes to be a fit reconciler
Chapter 15: What Christ has undertaken and performed in our reconciliation
Chapter 16: How what Christ has done for our reconciliation comes to be made ours
Chapter 17: How we come to have interest in what Christ has done is further opened
Chapter 18: Eight consequences of our reconciliation being made in Christ
Chapter 19: Three reasons why God would be reconciled to the world in Christ and in no other way
Chapter 20: Use 1: Humiliation for sin is useful
Chapter 21: Use 2: Discovering mistakes about reconciliation
Chapter 22: Use 3: Encouragement for sinners to come to God for reconciliation, and discouragements removed
Chapter 23: Use 4: Despair not of God’s making peace in this nation
Chapter 24: Use 5: Those who have assurance of their peace with God are highly to prize it
Chapter 25: Christians may lose the assurance of their peace with God through the weakness of their faith
Chapter 26: We may lose the assurance of our peace with God by our sinful walking
Chapter 27: Use 6: Give God the glory of our reconciliation
Chapter 28: Use 7: Love Christ, and do or suffer for Him
Chapter 29: Use 8: In seeking reconciliation by Christ
Chapter 30: That God was reconciling the world to Himself from all eternity, opened
Chapter 31: The work of our reconciliation with God in Christ has been a doing from all eternity
Chapter 32: Five uses of the former doctrine
Chapter 33: Of God’s reconciling the world to Himself
Chapter 34: That God’s reconciling the world to Himself cannot mean every individual man is proved by Scripture
Chapter 35: Why God’s reconciling to Himself is expressed by so broad a term as “the world”
Chapter 36: Use 1: Seeing God has excepted none from mercy, let none except themselves
Chapter 37: Use 2: Be reconciled to God now
Chapter 38: “Not imputing their trespasses” opened
Chapter 39: The minister’s commission to preach reconciliation to the world
Chapter 40: Why God chose men rather than angels to dispense the mystery of reconciliation
Chapter 41: Why God will not Himself immediately dispute this gospel reconciliation
Chapter 42: Use 1: The sending of ministers of the gospel is to be accounted a glorious blessing
Chapter 43: Use 2: The great honor of ministers who are faithful
Chapter 44: What a wretched world that cannot bear ministers of the gospel
Chapter 45: Verse 20 opened
Chapter 46: The ministers of the gospel are ambassadors of Christ
Chapter 47: Use: Welcome the ambassador of Christ
Chapter 48: The second doctrine propounded
Chapter 49: The second doctrine propounded in chapter 45 further prosecuted
Chapter 50: Use 1: Answering the objections of the Arminians and the wantons of our age
Chapter 51: Use 2: Ministers ought to speak as the oracles of God: the manner of their preaching opened
Chapter 52: In what kind of ministry God speaks most
Chapter 53: Use 3: We should delight in the Word
Chapter 54: Use 4: If God and Christ speak in the Word, how dreadful ought it be to the neglecters, disobeyers, and condemners of the Word
Chapter 55: How we ought to receive the Word
Chapter 56: The third doctrine propounded prosecuted
Chapter 57: Reasons for faithful ministers’ earnestness
Chapter 58: Use 1: The horrible wickedness of those who are idle in the ministry
Chapter 59: Use 2: Note where this earnestness comes from
Chapter 60: The fourth doctrine propounded in chapter 45: that God and Christ are exceedingly willing and desirous to be reconciled to sinners
Chapter 61: The first argument
Chapter 62: The second argument
Chapter 63: The third argument
Chapter 64: The fourth argument
Chapter 65: The fifth argument
Chapter 66: The sixth argument
Chapter 67: The seventh argument
Chapter 68: The eighth argument
Chapter 69: The ninth argument
Chapter 70: The tenth argument
Chapter 71: The eleventh argument
Chapter 72: The twelfth argument
Chapter 73: The thirteenth argument
Chapter 74: The fourteenth argument
Chapter 75: The fifteenth argument
Chapter 76: The sixteenth argument
Chapter 77: Christ’s willingness to be reconciled to sinners further opened
Chapter 78: Objections answered
Chapter 79: Use 1: Admire God’s infinite grace in entreating to be reconciled to sinners
Chapter 80: Uses 2 and 3:
Chapter 81: Use 4: God will not cast us off

The Life of Jeremiah Burroughs
A Summary of the Gospel