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[itself to Christ].
6. The end of this union, but which the soul has sensible peace with God, is sanctification of heart and life... including faith and all other graces.
And thus it is that the Spirit of God gives sensible peace.
This is the seal of the Spirit (Eph. 1:13); earnest of the Spirit. (2 Cor. 1:22). But this 'tis a spirit of adoption.
III. Distinguishing marks of it, whereby it may be distinguished from the false appearances of it.
1. In those that have a true peace with God their sensible peace has its foundation laid in conviction.
There is a false peace.
Preparation... legal conviction.
Immediate foundation:... Spiritual conviction has its foundation in light, and not in darkness... increased by conviction.
2. In those [that have peace] that quietness and rest of soul they have is not only their comfort but their virtue or nature.(?)
3. Christ is the foundation of all.
4. In those [that have peace there is] a sense of glory and suffering precedes a sense of propriety [property, possession].
A more principal foundation.
5. ...a rest of choice and love precedes a rest of hope.