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3. Therefore as the Effects of Christ's Death and Resurrection, Reconciliation is made with God for us, and that for ever: it is not a Peace made for such a time, or for so long, but for ever, so that there shall never be any destructive Breach any more, no more War between God and Believers; let Sin and Satan do what they can, they cannot break this League of Peace and Amity. 'Tis not a Peace upon Condition that we are to keep, and may break it; No, no, the Peace was made by Christ, and he that made it, maintains it, as he sits upon the Throne: He it was that made it as he is a Priest, and he maintains it as he is a King upon the Throne; ⟨p. 259⟩¹he will never suffer Sin to get such Head in us, that we shall cast off God any more, or violate our Covenant with him, nor will he suffer Satan to do it; therefore they who are reconciled, shall never perish, no not one of the Elect of God.

1. 1Zech. 6. 13.

Thirdly, The Gift of the Holy Spirit is another Effect of the Death of Christ: This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are Witnesses. ¹And having received of the Father the Promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. The Father promised unto his Son upon his dying for us, that the Holy Spirit should be given to all his Seed: I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed. ²Indeed, Christ receiving the Holy Spirit without measure for us, in his own Person as Mediator, antecedent to our believing, is the fullest Security to us imaginable: We are blessed with all spiritual Blessings in Christ, that is, in him as our Head. And although Christ received the Spirit before he suffered, yet it was upon the account of his Sufferings; the Father trusted his Son, took his Son's Word, and gave him part of his Wages from the beginning: for all the Saints under the Old Testament, had the Spirit upon no other Account than as we have it, namely, as the Fruits and Effects of Christ's Death and Purchase who was to die.