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An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustratedAn analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applied by their uses for a further progress in holiness / by ... William Ames ...An analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applyed by their uses for a further progresse in holinesse / by ... William Ames ...
London: printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1641London: printed by E.G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1641
Letter 2 › Chapter 1 › Verse 1-2 › The Doctrines that arise from v. 2.
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Doct. 4. Without Grace, there is no true peace.
Grace is the cause and foundation of peace, peace the effect and fruit of grace; it is the inheritance, which Christ left unto his disciples alone, John 14. 27. Isay 48. last. For this peace is not an external and worldly peace, but spiritual and internal. Before we are partakers of grace, we are called in Scripture, Gods enemies, so that we do wage a kind of war against God himself, and therefore also against the Angels of God, and other of his creatures. Now by grace, and by it alone is peace made.
Grace is the cause and foundation of peace, peace the effect and fruit of grace; it is the inheritance, which Christ left unto his disciples alone, Iohn 14. 27. Isay 48. last. For this peace is not an externall and worldly peace, but spirituall and internall. Before we are partakers of grace, we are called in Scripture, Gods enemies, so that we doe wage a kind of warre against God himselfe, and therefore also against the Angels of God, and other of his creatures. Now by grace, and by it alone is peace made.
Use. This may serve to refute and reprove the folly of those men, which so please themselves, in that outward quietness which they enjoy, when in the mean time, they are utterly void and ignorant of the grace of God.
Vse. This may serve to refute and reprove the folly of those men, which so please themselves, in that outward quietnesse which they enjoy, when in the meane time, they are utterly void and ignorant of the grace of God.