A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

2. A Holy life is therefore Pleasant, because we have a full sufficient Saviour, from whom we may daily fetch delight. The Eternal Son of God is become the Healer of our wounds, our Peace-maker with the Father, the Conqueror of our enemies, the Ransom for our sins, the Captain of our salvation, the Head of his Church, and the Treasure of all our Hopes and Joys! Sin and misery are the works of Satan, which Christ came into the world to destroy. If Hypocrites can steal a little Peace to their Consciences, from a false conceit that they have a part in Christ, what comfort may it be to the true Believer, that hath a sure and real interest in him! That is the sad and miserable life, when you are out of Christ, and strangers to his Covenant, and cannot say his benefits are yours, but you are yet in your sins, without his righteousness: But when we have a special interest in him, the foundation of our everlasting joy is laid, and the heart of sin and misery is broken: What fear or sorrow can you name, that I may not fetch a sufficient remedy against from Christ? What can the Prince of darkness say to our discomfort, which we may not answer by Arguments from Christ? By this judge of the Comfort of a Holy life. If the Godly over-look the Grounds of Joy, that are laid in Christ, and live in a mistaken sorrow, that is not for want of Reasons and warrant to rejoice, but for want of a right discerning of those Reasons. But what have you that are ungodly, to answer against all the terrors of the Law? or to answer against all the accusations of your consciences? or to comfort you against the remembrance of your approaching misery? While you have no part in Christ, you have no right to comfort. One thought of Christ to a believing soul, may afford more Delight then ever you will find in a sinful life.

2. A Holy life is therefore Pleasant, because we have a full sufficient Saviour, from whom we may daily fetch delight. The E•ernal Son of God is become the Healer of our wounds, our Peace-maker with the Father, the Conquerour of our enemies, the Ransom for our sins, the Captain of our salvation, the Head of his Church, and the Treasure of all our Hopes and Joyes! Sin and misery are the works of Satan, which Christ came into the world to destroy. If Hypocrites can steal a little Peace to their Consciences, from a false conceit that they have a part in Christ, what comfort may it be to the true Believer, that hath a sure and real interest in him! That is the sad and miserable life, when you are out of Christ, and strangers to his Covenant, and cannot say his benefits are yours, but you are yet in your sins, without his righteousness: But when we have a special interest in him, the foundation of our everlasting joy is laid, and the heart of sin and misery is broken: What fear or sorrow can you name, that I may not fetch a sufficient remedy against from Christ? What can the Prince of darkness say to our discomfort, which we may not answer by Arguments from Christ? By this judge of the Comfort of a Holy life. If the Godly over-look the Grounds of Joy, that are laid in Christ, and live in a mistaken sorrow, that is not for want of Reasons and warrant to rejoyce, but for want of a right discerning of those Reasons. But what have you that are ungodly, to answer against all the terrours of the Law? or to answer against all the accusations of your consciences? or to comfort you against the remembrance of your approaching misery? While you have no part in Christ, you have no right to comfort. One thought of Christ to a believing soul, may afford more Delight then ever you will find in a sinful life.