The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

This Reconciliation consists in two things chiefly: 1. In our peace with God, whereby the Lord lays by all acts of hostility against us, Rom. 5.1. 2. In love and favour of God, I do not mean Gods love of good will, for this is in election, but his love of complacency and delight, for till we are justified, the Lord behaves himself as an enemy and stranger to us who are polluted before him, but then he begins thus to l•ve us, 1 Joh. 4.10, 16. Col. 1.21, 22. A Gardiner may intend to turn a Crab-tree stock into an an Apple-tree, his intention doth not alter the nature of it, until it actually be engrafted upon: so we are by nature the children of wrath, Ephes. 1.3. The in•ention of God the Father, or his love of good will doth not make us children of favour and sons of peace, until the Lord actually call us to and engraft us into Christ, and then as Christ is the delight of God;¹ so we in him are loved with the same love of delight. Peace with God and love of God are different degrees of our reconciliation: A Prince is at peace or ceaseth war against a rebel, yet he may not bring the Rebel before him, into his bosom of special favour, delight, and love; but the Lord doth both, ⟨p. 275⟩towards us enemies, strangers, Rebels, devils, in our reconciliation with him.

This Reconciliation consists in two things chiefly: 1. In our peace with God, whereby the Lord layes by all acts of hostility against us, Rom. 5.1. 2. In love and favour of God, I doe not meane Gods love of good will, for this is in election, but his love of complacencie and delight, for till we are justified, the Lord behaves himselfe as an enemy and stranger to us who are polluted before him, but then he begins thus to l•ve us,