o Al réatifi o f. Conf ience: ing fermon or the threatings ofGods judgments:Nay,if we be in trouble.this will quiet us;if in afíliftion,this will comfort us : It wil endure al our life, &be prefent at our death;then efpecially it will Phew it felf-a friend unto us, in flanding by us to cheat and Pfa .r refrefh us. Great peace have they which love thy Lath, and nothing :65 9' fhal offend theeo,fatthDavid.nothing (hall offend them or take a- way their peace: it is an eternal & everlaffing peace. Thus you have teen how the true and falfe peace of confcience differ. But here cometh a queflion to be anfwered,and it is this; Have all Gods children this peace of confcience ? I dare fay Tome of you look for this queflion, and long to have it anfwer - ed. I anfwer therefore, No; they have it not always. job km- 76.7-1°. ed one while not to have it : I havefinned, faith his confcience : mhat! ball I doe unto thee, 0 thou preferver of men. David feemed one while not to have it !Cline iniquities are gone over my head as a heavie burden ; they are too heavie for me, Pfal. 3 8. 4. His finnes lay heavie upon his.confcience for a fit. Hezekiah one while feemed not to have it : Behold, for peace I had great bit- term ffe . And therefore I fay the children of God have it not alwayes. But let me tell you; They might have it alwayes. r. It is poffible they fhould have it alwayes: Their finnes of igno. rance and infirmitie do not break the peace of their confciences: cannot; for if they could, then no man fhould have true peace of confcience at any time. Nothing but willing and witting fins, finnes againfl confcience, can break the peace of confcience and as it is pofhble for the children of God to live Without thefe, fo it is poffible for them alwayes to have peace ; yea, they may have daily more and more peace. 2. As it is poffible for the children of God alwayes to have peace, fo they are com- manded to keep their peace alwayes ; and it is their own fault Job.,. if at any time they lofe it ; eilcquaint thy felfe with God, and be at peace, faith Eliphas. So, Let the peace of God rule in your CO. 3.IF. hearts, unto which ye are called. We are not onely commanded to have peace in our hearts, but allo that it may rule there, that no corruption perk over it to hinder it ; we are called to this peace, and commanded to have it ; and therefore as it is a fin t rn
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