Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

1. It speaks their peace with God: sin was it that brought a difference betwixt God & man,¹ now this difference Jesus Christ had taken away by his death, Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the World; he had taken it away in its condemning power, or as •o it's separating power betwixt God and them; this was the great design of Christs coming to make peace betwixt God and man; his Father imposed this office upon him, and Jesus Christ undertook it, and discharged it, and he proclaims it, in the first place to his Disciples, Peace be unto you.

1. It speakes their peace with God: sin was it that brought a difference betwixt God & man,¹ now this difference Jesus Christ had taken away by his death, Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the World; he had taken it away in its condemning power, or as •o it's separating power betwixt God and them; this was the great design of Christs coming to make peace betwixt God and man; his Father imposed this office upon him, and Jesus Christ undertook it, and discharged it, and he proclaims it, in the first place to his Disciples, Peace be unto you.

1. 1John 1.29.

2. It speaks their Peace with man: I know no reason why we should exclude civil peace out of Christ's wish; many, & many a promise and precept we have in the Word scattered here and there to this purpose,¹ And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lye down, and none shall make you afraid.—and thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field, and thou shalt know that thy Tabernacle shall be in peace,