Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…

(2.) As to Comforts, so they have some foretastes of that sweetness which is in Heaven, by the Life and Exercise of ⟨p. 43⟩Faith, which is followed with Peace and Joy, Rom. 15. 13. Or in their approaches to God in the Word and Prayer, where Cod most familiarly manifests himself unto his People, 1 Pet. 1. 3. or upon some apprehensions of his favour, or the exercise of Hope and Love, 2 Pet. 1. 8. By these or the like ways, the Spirit of God giveth us the foretaste. Surely such an Author, such an Object, must needs put ravishing and heavenly Joy into the Heart of a Believer.

4. They are also made meet to partake of the heavenly Inheritance, Col. 1. 12. There is Jus Haereditarium, and Jus Aptitudinale. The difference is, as between an Heir grown, and in his nonage, when a Child in the Cradle. As their Natures are more renewed and purified, and their Souls weaned from the delights of sense, they are changed into the Divine Nature.

4. They are also made meet to partake of the heavenly Inheritance, Col. 1. 12. There is Ius Haereditarium, and Ius Aptitudinale. The difference is, as between an Heir grown, and in his nonage, when a Child in the Cradle. As their Natures are more renewed and purified, and their Souls weaned from the delights of sense, they are changed into the Divine Nature.