Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

those indeed that have no enlightenings in them, are without any fear ⟨p. 126⟩but the other are full of doubts, and fears; and it is upon this ground; because that peace they have, is no other but that which they have gotten by their Prayers, and by their duties, and by their tears, and by their good meanings, as they think, and never bring in Christ; they never have been acquainted with that great Mystery of Godliness. Now, that peace with God that thou hast got any way but by Gods revealing the work of his reconciling himself to the world in Christ; that peace will never hold long; but thou wilt be ready upon every temptation, upon every suggestion; upon every new sin committed, to call that peace into question: But if thou hast been rooted in Christ, and thy peace grounded upon that which is beyond all thy duties, and all thy tears, and prayers, nnd canst look upon God as reconciled unto thee in Christ; this peace will hold, and this may hold notwithstanding abundance of sins may remain in the soul of one that is thus reconciled unto God. And therefore for your help, because you may not upon every sin call in question your reconciliation with God: know this; that being reconciled unto God, thou art not under the Law so as that every sin against the Law should put thee under the sentence, of eternal death: thou art not under the curse that doth threaten everlasting death to those that so sin. Here is the difference between one that is reconciled unto God, and an other that is not. One that is not reconciled unto God in Christ, is so under the Law, as every sin he commits, be it little, or great doth put him under the sentence, and curse of eternal death: the neglect of any duty, be it never so small doth it. But now, here is the privilege of a Believer; when thou art once a Believer, and so art in Jesus Christ; then the sins thou committest; those should indeed be for thy humiliation; but there is none of them that do put thee under the sentence of eternal death; neither upon this ground art thou to keep the Law: that is, to keep it so, as to think, ⟨p. 127⟩that if thou do it not, or that every breach of the Law should put thee under the sentence of eternal death. Indeed others that are under the Law, they must look to keep the Law, whether they be able or not; but the Law hath no power over thee that way, and thou art not upon that ground to keep it;

those indeed that have no inlightnings in them, are without any feare