A55299:173
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ, and our union and communion with him by Edward Polhill ..., Esquire.
London: printed for Ben. Foster, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
All this is but a mistake,1 for want of distinguishing between the Foundation of our peace with God, and the Sense of it: The Foundation of our peace is not laid in our Works or Legal ⟨p. 150⟩Righteousness, but in the atoning and satisfying blood of Jesus Christ, which speaks peace to all believers:2 A notable instance whereof we have in that German John à Berg Father of Joachim, who in all his life was a zealous Papist, standing on his works and legal righteousness, but upon his deathbed cast away those fig-leaves and poor coverings, and reposed himself in the merit and expiation of Christ, as the only foundation of peace: But the sense of this peace is found in a way of holiness, whilst the believer is there; the love of God coming down in the witness of the spirit, and echoing in conscience, makes such a pure serenity in the heart, as outrelishes all things in nature: Now whether there be any inconsistency between the foundation of our peace and the sense of it, I leave to the Reader; these may as well stand together, as Christs atonement and our Obedience.
All this is but a mistake,1 for want of distinguishing between the Foundation of our peace with God, and the Sense of it: The Foundation of our peace is not laid in our Works or Legal ⟨p. 150⟩Righteousness, but in the atoning and satisfying blood of Jesus Christ, which speaks peace to all believers:2 A notable instance whereof we have in that German John à Berg Father of Joachim, who in all his life was a zealous Papist, standing on his works and legal righteousness, but upon his deathbed cast away those fig-leaves and poor coverings, and reposed himself in the merit and expiation of Christ, as the only foundation of peace: But the sence of this peace is found in a way of holiness, whilest the believer is there; the love of God coming down in the witness of the spirit, and ecchoing in conscience, makes such a pure serenity in the heart, as outrelishes all things in nature: Now whether there be any inconsistency between the foundation of our peace and the sence of it, I leave to the Reader; these may as well stand together, as Christs attonement and our Obedience.