A34165:830
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.
London : s.n., 1663
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First, justifying grace, hath a peace attending that, Rom. 5.1. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. So far as we have confidence in justifying grace, there remains no conscience of condemning sin. As there can be no bitterer War than between conscience and the ear, so there can be no sweeter Peace, than when Mercy and Peace meet together, and when Conscience and Peace kiss each other: The former is the taste of Heaven, the latter is the perambulation of Heaven; both which the Believer shares in upon his Justification by faith. If Christ had peace, who was made our sin, needs must the Believer have peace, who is made the Righteousness of God in him.
Secondly, Sanctifying grace hath a peace attending it, and this peace differs from the former, as the Root from the Fruit. The peace of Justification is a radical Peace, the root of Peace; but the Peace of Sanctification is the bud, the blossom of the Tree: the former flows from the blood of Christ sprinkled on the Conscience, the latter from the conformity that is between the Word and the Will, between the Commands and the Conscience; As many as walk according to this Rule, grace be unto them and peace, Gal. 6.16. So that Peace is the fruit of sanctifying Grace. Now as the blood of the Pascal-Lamb, (which was a token of peace) was not to be struck on the posts of the Egyptians, but upon the posts of the Israelites; so neither is the blood of sprinkling, which brings perfect peace, to be struck on the Posts of the carnal Sinner, but on the Posts of the true Believer, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile; no Grace, no ⟨image 99⟩Peace, that is Gods Law. How can a sinner have peace in a state of sin, when God and conscience, when Word and conscience, when Law and conscience, and all the Attributes of God are against a sinner? No Peace saith my God to the wicked. Pray mark that chapter, it begins with the peace, and ends in no peace. In ver. 2. it is said, He shall enter into peace, that is, the Righteous: in the last verse, There is no peace to the wicked. It is the state of Grace that is the only state of peace. And thus I pass from the double Grace desired, Grace and Peace; to the double Fountain discovered, God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.