The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32…

Unbelievers would ⟨image 12⟩have Happiness: but how fain would they have it in the Creature, rather then in God! Believers would rather have their Happiness in God then in the Creature: But how fain would they have it without Dying? And no wonder: for when Sin brought in Death, even Grace it self cannot Love it, though it may submit to it: But though Churlish Death do stand in our way, why look we not at the Souls admittance into Rest! and the Bodies Resurrection that must shortly follow? Doubtless that Faith by which we are Justified and Saved, as it sits down on the word of Truth as the present ground of its confident repose, so doth it thence look with one eye backward on the Cross, and with the other forward on the Crown: And if we well observe the Scripture Descriptions of that Faith, we shall find them as frequently magnifying it, and describing it from the latter as from the former. As it is the duty and glory of faith to look back with Thankful Acknowledgement to a Crucified Christ, and his payment of our Ransom: so is it the Duty and Glory of ⟨image 12⟩that same Justifying Saving Faith to Look forward with Desire and Hope to the Return of King Jesus, and the Glorious Celebration of the Marriage of the Lamb, and the Sentential Justification, and the Glorification of his Saints: To Believe these things unfeignedly which we never saw, (nor ever spoke with man that did see) and to Hope for them so Really as to let go all present forbidden pleasures, and all worldly hopes and seeming happiness, rather then to hazard the loss of them: this is an eminent part of that Faith by which the Just do live, and which the Scripture doth own as Justifying and Saving: (For it never distinguisheth between Justifying Faith and Saving Faith, as to their nature.) It is therefore a great mistake of some to look only at that one eye of Justifying Faith which looks back upon the Cross, and a great mistake of them on the other hand that look only at that eye of it which beholds the Crown: Both Christ Crucified, and Christ Interceding, and Christ Returning to Justify and Glorify, are the ⟨image 13⟩objects even of Justifying Saving Faith, most strictly so called. The Scripture oft expresseth the one only: but then it still implieth the other. The Socinians erroneously therefore from