Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

3. Sin has broke the sweet Peace and blessed Concord in the Soul, the Felicity of our innocent State. Peace is the Tranquility that results from Order and Unity. In Man there was a regular Harmony of all his Faculties; the Affections were Consonant with his Will, his Will with his Understanding, and his Understanding with the Law of God. This was the inward State of his Soul in his Creation; for having a derived being, it was natural and necessary, that he should be appointed to his End, and receive his Rule for the obtaining it, from the Understanding and Will of his Maker. Now whilst there was a Correspondence in his Faculties, and their Operations with his Rule and End, the Will of God, and the Glory of God, the Result of it, as well as the Reward of it, was Spiritual Peace with God, Internal Peace with himself, External Peace with others. Now Sin has dissolved this Unity, violated this sacred Order: And from hence,

1. Peace with God, that consisted in his Favour and Friendship to us, and our filial dependence upon him, which is the Spring of full and satisfying Joy, is broke. God appears a fearful Enemy against the Sinners; the penal Effects of his Wrath, I shall speak of distinctly under the second general: And that Divine Calm in the Conscience, that Peace joined with the purest Pleasure, that was the reflex of Gods Favour on the Soul, is changed into anxious Apprehensions of his just Power to punish us. Guilt generates Fear, and Fear Hatred, and both cause a woeful flight from God.

1. Peace with God, that consisted in his Favour and Friendship to us, and our filial dependence upon him, which is the Spring of full and satisfying Joy, is broke. God appears a fearful Enemy against the Sinners; the penal Effects of his Wrath, I shall speak of distinctly under the second general: And that Divine Calm in the Conscience, that Peace joyn'd with the purest Pleasure, that was the refleex of Gods Favour on the Soul, is changed into anxious Apprehensions of his just Power to punish us. Guilt generates Fear, and Fear Hatred, and both cause a woful flight from God.