The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

Indeed this peace may be interrupted and disturbed, because of darkness and temptations, and because conscience is but in part satisfied: but they are never brought back to take up such conclusions, against themselves as before their closing with Christ, but commonly they do enjoy some comfortable serenity of heart: have the answer of a good conscience by the resurrection of Christ, 1 Pet. 3.21. this comes to pass by these two things.

Indeed this peace may be interrupted and disturbed, because of darkness and temptations, and because conscience is but in part satisfyed: but they are never brought back to take up such conclusions, against themselves as before their closing with Christ, but commonly they do enjoy some comfortable serenity of heart: have the answer of a good conscience by the resurrection of Christ, 1 Pet. 3.21. this comes to pass by these two things.

1. When a soul comes to Christ, the soul is satisfied, that there is peace with God, to be obtained in a way of coming to Christ, that there is safety in coming to Christ: the inward call of the Gospel satisfies the soul that there is salvation in Christ for all that come to him: conscience is thereby well satisfied in the sufficiency of Christ, the freeness and the fullness of the grace of God, 1 Pet. 2.7. to him that believes, Christ is precious: the objections of the heart are removed by the convincing work of the Spirit. 2. The first act of closing with Christ is not so sensibly done, but that he does take some notice of it: some after acts of faith may be more plain, and in continuance of time the soul may lose the exact knowledge of the time of his first closing with Christ and the circumstances of it: but this first closing with Christ is not so secret a thing, but that it falls under the observation of conscience, Jer. 3.22.