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Take heed therefore, that you never maintain peace with any sin. Great peace have they that love thy Law, and nothing shall offend them, Psal. 119. 165. ⟨p. 77⟩Oh, how many of you have broke your peace with God! at least the comfort of it is exceedingly darkened: you would fain have outward ease, and peace, but you have neglected the comforts of this peace, and that is the reason you have no strength, to suffer any thing for the truth, Nehem. 8. 10. The joy of the Lord is your strength, that joy that comes from this inward peace, but where this is not, there is nothing to sweeten sorrows, and therefore they must needs be very bitter. That time therefore that God gives you yet respite from afflictions, let it be spent in making up your peace more with God then ever, and getting clearer evidence, and sense of his love. If ever you knew what peace with God meant, I appeal unto you, when at any time, the sense of it hath enlarged your hearts with joy; whether then, have you not found your selves willing to suffer any thing for God? you could then go through fire, and water, your spirits could triumph with the Apostle, I am per swaded that neither life, nor death, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, shall ever be able to separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus.

Take heed therefore, that you never maintain peace with any sin. Great peace have they that love thy Law, and nothing shall offend them, Psal. 119. 165. ⟨p. 77⟩Oh, how many of you have broke your peace with God! at least the comfort of it is exceedingly darkned: you would fain have outward ease, and peace, but you have neglected the comforts of this peace, and that is the reason you have no strength, to suffer any thing for the truth, Nehem. 8. 10. The joy of the Lord is your strength, that joy that comes from this inward peace, but where this is not, there is nothing to sweeten sorrows, and therefore they must needs be very bitter. That time therefore that God gives you yet respite from afflictions, let it be spent in making up your peace more with God then ever, and getting clearer evidence, and sense of his love. If ever you knew what peace with God meant, I appeal unto you, when at any time, the sense of it hath enlarged your hearts with joy; whether then, have you not found your selves willing to suffer any thing for God? you could then go through fire, and water, your spirits could triumph with the Apostle, I am per swaded that neither life, nor death, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, shal ever be able to seperate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus.