A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

¹Secondly, Another Blessed Effect of Pardon of Sin, is Peace and Reconciliation with God. And what happiness can there be greater, than when the Quarrel betwixt Heaven and Earth, betwixt God and the Sinner, is taken up and compounded. Open Wars have been long proclaimed, and long maintained on either part; ever since the first great Rebellion, Man hath stood in defiance with, and exercised great Hostility against his Creator; and God on the other hand, hath thundered out whole Peals of Curses against these Rebels, and hath slain whole Generations of them eternally Dead upon the place. God hath still maintained his Cause with Victory, and Man his with Obstinacy; ⟨p. 71⟩and this War would never cease, did not God proclaim Pardon and Forgiveness to all that will lay down their Arms and submit. Now hereupon Peace is concluded fully: for first God's pardoning Sinners, manifests himself to be fully reconciled to them, so the Apostle tells us, Rom. 5.1. Being Justified by Faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. God is a sworn Enemy to all guilty sinners, himself hath affixed this Title to the rest of his Name, That he will by no means clear the guilty. Guilt hath a malign influence, not only on our Consciences to discompose them with Terrors and Affrightments, but on God's Countenance also to ruffle it into Frowns and Displeasure. Now when God pardons sin, he wipes away this over-casting Cloud: and the cause of Enmity being removed, his Face and Favour clears up to us. And then,

¹Secondly, Another Blessed Effect of Pardon of Sin, is Peace and Reconciliation with God. And what happiness can there be greater, than when the Quarrel betwixt Heaven and Earth, betwixt God and the Sinner, is taken up and compounded. Open Wars have been long proclaimed, and long maintained on either part; ever since the first great Rebellion, Man hath stood in defiance with, and exercised great Hostility against his Creatour; and God on the other hand, hath thundred out whole Peals of Curses against these Rebels, and hath slain whole Generations of them eternally Dead upon the place. God hath still maintain'd his Cause with Victory, and Man his with Obstinacy; ⟨p. 71⟩