cfje Coiennnt ape=Opgneti. Defence, our Prote&or, our Guard, and on- ly Safety in the Day of Trouble. 12. It u that great Legacy Chrift bequeathed to all hisDifciple ; My Peace I leave withyou, Jokot4. 7. my Peace I give to you, &c. 'Tis Peace the Worldknows not of, can neither give it, nor take it away. z 3. 'T Everlafting Peace, Peace like a R.i-: ver, and it will abide to Eternal Ages ; nay, and it will increafe and be much greater, but never ceafe read my Text. 14. To Sum up all : All forts of Peace are comprehended in th.i,s Peace. (i .) Peace withGod., (2.) Peace ofConfcience. (3.) Peace withAn- gels. (q..) Peace withyour (elves. (5.) Peace with Saints, (Yews and Gentiles by this Peace were made bothone) that is, all the Elea a- mong them. (6.) Congregational Peace, Chrift purchafed this Peace, and requires us to pof- fefs it : Have Salt in your (elves, and be at Mark g*? Peace one with another And O how lovely a thing is this. (7.) Family Peace, relative Peace; before Grace, maybe the Husbandand Wife lived in War with each other ; and the Parents and Children, and Mafters and Ser- vants,might quarel withone another,butGrace reconciles all together in Love. True, Chrift Pays, He came not to bring Peace, but a Sword; that is, he forefaw this would be the effe& of his coming, and where he is received and one is Converted, and the other not, the Uncon- verted raifes oftentimes War, but when that Perlon is changed, and has Peace with God, that War ceafes allo. (8) National and Ex-. 11 2 ternal' 291,
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