Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…

3. We are freed from the accusations of Conscience. The worm of Conscience is part of the Torment of Hell^†. But God being our God we are freed from the Clamours of this hellish Fury: Conscience sprinkled with Christs blood speaks Peace; a good Conscience like the Bee gives Honey; it is like the Golden pot which had Manna in it, 2 Cor. 1.12.

3. We are freed from the accusations of Conscience. The worm of Conscience is part of the Torment of Hell^†. But God being our God we are freed from the Clamors of this hellish Fury: Conscience sprinkled with Christs blood speaks Peace; a good Conscience like the Bee gives Hony; it is like the Golden pot which had Manna in it, 2 Cor. 1.12.

1. †Tandem flagitia in supplicia Vertuntur, Tacitus.

6. If God saith to us ye are mine, we shall be his for ever, Psalm 48.14. This God is our God for ever and ever. You cannot say you have health and you shall have it for ever, you have a Child and you shall have it for ever; but if God be your God, you shall have him for ever. The Covenant of Grace is Sacrum diploma, a Royal Charter, and this is the Happiness of it, it is eternized^†. The interest between God and his people shall never be broken off; How false therefore is the Opinion of falling from Grace! Shall any that God makes his own by Federal union, Fall finally? Indeed if Salvation hath no better Pillar to rest upon than mans will (as the Arminians hold) no wonder if there be falling away