Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

Glory, glory, glory to him that thus loved us, and washed u• from our sins in his own blood!

Glory, glory, glory to him that thus loved us, and washed u• f•om our sins in his own blood!

The second benefit flowing from the same spring of union with Christ, and coming by the way of justification, is Peace; peace with God, and peace of conscience, according to the measure of the sense the justified have of their peace with God, Rom. v. 1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Chap xiv. 27. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Whereas God was their enemy before, now he is reconciled to them in Christ; they are in a covenant of peace with him; and as Abraham was, so they are the friends of God. He is well-pleased with them, in his beloved Son. His word, which spoke terror to them formerly, now speaks peace, if they rightly take up its language. And there is love in all his dispensations toward them, which makes all work together for their good: Their consciences are purged of that guilt and filthiness that sometime lay upon them: his conscience purifying blood streams through their souls, by virtue of their union with him, Heb. ix. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ—purge your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God? The bonds laid on their consciences, by the Spirit of God, acting as the spirit of bondage, are taken off, never more to be laid on by that hand, Rom. vii. 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. Hereby the conscience is […] as soon as the soul becomes conscious of the application of that […] which falls out sooner or later, according to the treasure of faith, and • the only wise God sees meet to time it. Unbelievers may have troubled consciences, which they may get ted again: but alas! their consciences become peaceable, ere they