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

1. God being our God in Covenant, his Love is to the holy soul, as the Sun is to our bodies, to illuminate, warm, revive, and comfort them; and did not sin cause some eclipses, or raise some clouds, or shut the windows, we should rejoice continually, and ⟨p. 311⟩find how sweet a thing it is, being justified by faith, to have peace with God.

1. God being our God in Covenant, his Love is to the holy soul, as the Sun is to our bodies, to illuminate, warm, revive, and comfort them; and did not sin cause some ecclipses, or raise some clouds, or shut the windows, we should rejoyce continually, and ⟨p. 311⟩find how sweet a thing it is, being justified by faith, to have peace with God.

2. We are in Covenant with Jesus Christ, who intercedeth for our peace with God. And the Father always heareth his intercession, John 11. 42. And therefore that measure of comfort which he seeth suitable to our present state, we shall be sure of. Who shall condemn us? when it is Christ that dyed, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us, Rom. 8. 34. We have a great high-Priest that is passed into the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God; one that is touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and was in all points tempted like as we are, but without sin; and therefore through him we may come boldly to the throne of Grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.] Heb. 4. 14, 15, 16. What comforting words hath he spoken to us in the Gospel? and what comfortable relations hath he put us into? He calleth us his friends, if we do his Commandments, as if servants were too low a title,