Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 5:18

18 And all things are of God , who hath reconciled us unto himself by Jesus Christ , and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation .

This Change, which is wrought in our Hearts, is not of our selves, but wrought in us by the great and mighty Power of God: so Ioh. 1.13. Which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God; Of God, as the principal efficient Cause.

Who, by the Blood of his Son Jesus Christ, meritoriously, and by the Spirit of Christ, actually, hath reconciled us unto himself; of Enemies hath made us Friends.

And hath given us the Ministry of Reconciliation, hath betrusted us with the preaching of the Gospel: It is God that hath reconciled us; it is Christ by whom we are reconciled, his Blood is the Price of our Reconciliation: But he committed to his Apostles, and so to the successive Ministers of the Gospel, the Ministry of Reconciliation, that is, the Ministry of the Gospel, by which this Reconciliation is published to such as are as yet Enemies to God. They have but a Ministration in it; God hath appointed them to publish and to declare it and to intreat men to be reconciled unto him.

Marginal references: Col. 1.20. 1 Joh. 2.2. & 4.10.