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

Third Consequence.

Thirdly, there is in the soul a Peace in all other faculties. As thus: Before the work of Reconciliation between God and man was done, the Scripture saith, there is no Peace to the wicked in regard of tumultuous workings of the many lusts that are in their hearts, the one continually fighting against the other: the Conscience telling one thing, and the will of a man that opposeth Conscience; and the affections they are all in a tumult one against another; one lust opposeth another, fighteth against another; there is a disorder, and a confusion, and a tumult in the heart of a wicked man, he goes against the light, and the light against him, and there is nothing but warring, and combustion in his heart: Your lusts (saith the Apostle) war one against another within you; and you may easily find it to be so if you observe your selves, that when your lusts are once up, they breed such a woeful disturbance in your heart, that you are like the Sea that casts up nothing but mire and dirt. Take a wicked man that hath but some darting in of any light, telling him what the mind of God is, his heart fights against this light, and the light fights against his heart; so that there are nothing but woeful disturbances in his Soul, and he is never at Peace; No, not when he seems to be most serene and quiet. But now when we come to be at Peace with God there is a blessed calm comes into the ⟨p. 28⟩Spirit of a man, the Conscience, the will, and the affections are brought into a sweet, and Comely order, and things are in a great measure more quiet than ever they were.

Thirdly, there is in the soul a Peace in all other faculties. As thus: Before the work of Reconciliation between God and man was done, the Scripture saith, there is no Peace to the wicked in regard of tumultuous workings of the many lusts that are in their hearts, the one continally fighting against the other: the Conscience telling one thing, and the will of a man that opposeth Conscience; and the affections they are all in a tumult one against another; one lust opposeth another, fighteth against another; there is a disorder, and a confusion, and a tumult in the heart of a wicked man, he goes against the light, and the light against him, and there is nothing but warring, and combustion in his heart: Your lusts (saith the Apostle) war one against another within you; and you may easily find it to be so if you observe your selves, that when your lusts are once up, they breed such a woful disturbance in your heart, that you are like the Sea that casts up nothing but mire and dirt. Take a wicked man that hath but some darting in of any light, telling him what the mind of God is, his heart fights against this light, and the light fights against his heart; so that there are nothing but woful disturbances in his Soul, and he is never at Peace; No, not when he seems to be most serene and quiet. But now when we come to be at Peace wih God there is a blessed calme comes into the