Gospel Reconciliation: God’s Marvelous Plan of Salvation

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

368 pages.

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