A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

2. This may also direct you to the right way to keep up and maintain peace in your own Consciences: God People are oftentimes much put out of order, and find abundance of trouble in the reflections of their minds within them; and the usual reason of it is because they do not make that use of Christs Righteousness which they ought to do, they do not improve their Justification up to the height: Peace within a mans self is a wonderful blessing, and happy is that man who enjoys it, and can live upon it: and this peace, if it be of the ⟨p. 158⟩right kind, and that which will hold out, hath its foundation in our Justification by Faith in Jesus Christ: this is the proper ground of all inward solid peace, Rom 5 1. Being justified by Faith, we have peace with God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. There is in the first place peace with God, and then consequent upon that, is peace in a mans Conscience, which is an inward quietness settled in the soul of a true Believer, arising from a saving reliance upon the Righteousness of Christ, as that which shall answer the Law for us, shall deliver us from the curse and condemnation of it, and also bestow on us all the felicity which is revealed in the now Covenant, and treasured up in all these precious promises which are therein revealed. A Believers peace of Conscience, hath not its dependence upon any worth or worthiness of his own, but upon Gods promise, Christs merit, and his assured interest in it: how much then doth it concern every serious soul to labour after this? considering that just so much as we attain unto of it, just so much of freedom we enjoy from a spirit of bondage; and so much of liberty, and spiritual freedom in the cheerful serving of God: this is it which helps us with a quiet and sedate spirit pursue the business we have to do in our Generation, and which affords us holy boldness to make our near approaches ⟨p. 159⟩pro•ches to the Throne of Grace, to ask the help of God in all our concerns, and to leave all our requests before him with the greatest confidence: yes, and it also greatly helps to sweeten all both mercies and afflictions that we meet with in our whole pilgrimage;

2. This may also direct you to the right way to keep up and maintain peace in your own Consciences: God People are oftentimes much put out of order, and find abundance of trouble in the reflexions of their minds within them; and the usual reason of it is because they do not make that use of Christs Righteousness which they ought to do, they do not improve their Justification up to the height: Peace within a mans self is a wonderful blessing, and happy is that man who enjoys it, and can live upon it: and this peace, if it be of the