Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

2. Peace ariseth hence also, Rom. 15. 13. The God of hope fill §. 6 you with all peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost. The power of the Holy Ghost, is not only extended to hope, but to our peace also in believing. So is it in the connection of those promises, Joh. 14. 26, 27. I will give you the Comforter: and what then? what follows that grant? Peace, saith he, I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Nor doth Christ otherwise leave his peace, or give his peace unto them, but by bestowing the comforter on them. The peace of Christ, consists in the souls sense of its Acceptation with God in friendship. So is Christ said to be our Peace, Eph. 2. 14. by slaying the enmity between God and us, and in taking away the handwriting, that was against us, Rom. 5. 1. being justified by Faith, we have Peace with God. A comfortable persuasion of our Acceptation with God in Christ, is the bottom of this peace, it enwraps ⟨p. 293⟩deliverance from Eternal wrath, hatred, curse, condemnation; all sweetly affecting the soul and conscience.

2. Peace ariseth hence also, Rom. 15. 13. The God of hope fill §. 6 you with all peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost. The power of the Holy Ghost, is not only extended to hope, but to our peace also in believing. So is it in the connexion of those promises, Joh. 14. 26, 27. I will give you the Comforter: and what then? what followes that grant? Peace, saith he, I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Nor doth Christ otherwise leave his peace, or give his peace unto them, but by bestowing the comforter on them. The peace of Christ, consists in the soules sense of its Acceptation with God in friendship. So is Christ said to be our Peace,