The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Time was, that [Hoc age: do this] was the condition of life. — do this and live. So ran the old Covenant: But now [Creed: Believe: and be saved] The Law required works. It's called a Covenant of Works: but the Gospel Faith: Its a Covenant of Grace, Made out of mere Grace, and performed of mere Grace, wherein God promiseth pardon of sins, upon mere Mercy and Grace.

Time was, that [Hoc age: do this] was the condition of life. — do this and live. So ran the old Covenant: But now [Crede: Beleeve: and bee saved] The Law required works. It's called a Covenant of Works: but the Gospel Faith: Its a Covenant of Grace, Made out of meer Grace, and performed of meer Grace, wherein God promiseth pardon of sins, upon meer Mercy and Grace.

4. Faith doth instate us into the conditions of Peace. Faith gives us the grounds of Peace, Justification, Reconciliation with God, pardon of sin, and Sanctification of the whole man. As there is no Peace, where God is not propitious; so there's no Peace where the sinner is not sanctified.

A Believing heart is an holy heart: and an holy heart is a peaceable heart. Grace and Peace: and Righteousness, and Peace, are still coupled together. To show, that where there is no Grace, there is no Peace: and where there is Grace, there is Peace, though not ever in the Possession,¹ and sensible enjoyment; yet ever in the hope and assurance of the promise of Peace. Grace is the root, and Peace is the fruit. — A good Conscience is a continual Feast. They who do the work of God, shall have the Peace of God, Gal. 6. — They who walk according to this Rule, Peace shall be on them, &c. Hence the Psalmist,