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2 Peace with our own conscience. When that stern Sergeant shall take thee by the throat, and arrest thee upon Gods debt, pay that thou owest: let thy faith plead, I have payed it. How? Produce thy acquittance, that bloody acquittance, sealed in the wounds of thy Saviour, and given to thy faith. This shall turn the frowns of thy conscience into smiles: and that hand which was ready to hale thee to prison, shall now embrace thee with joy, encourage thee with kindness, and fight tor thee with conquest.

2 Peace with our owne conscience. When that sterne Sergeant shall take thee by the throte, and arrest thee upon Gods debt, pay that thou owest: let thy faith plead, I have payed it. How? Produce thy acquittance, that bloudy acquittance, sealed in the wounds of thy Saviour, and given to thy faith. This shall turne the frownes of thy conscience into smiles: and that hand which was ready to hale thee to prison, shall now embrace thee with joy, encourage thee with kindnesse, and fight tor thee with conquest.

3 Victory, faith knows no other language but victory.^r I have kept the faith, now is laid up for me a Crown. It^s subdueth kingdoms, even regnum Antichristi, the kingdom of the devil, there's victory: wrought righteousness, though the world and sin withstood it, there's victory: raised strength out of weakness, there's victory over nature: turned to slight the armies of the aliens, there's victor je over malice and hostility: raised the dead, there's victory over the grave: with patience and greatness of spirit, it endured mockings, scourgings, &c. miseries worse than death, there's glorious victory. It overcomes the world, 1 John 5.4. it overcomes the Prince of this world;^t whom resist steadfast in the faith. It quencheth all the fiery darts of the wicked,