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6. Communion with saints (1 John 1:3-7).
7. An irrefragable title to eternal glory.
8. Steadfastness under the changes of life. Anchor to the soul.
A steadfast calm in the midst of storms. A steadfast meekness in the midst of oppositions.
9. A strong and conquering support and comfort under the troubles of life... Waiting our death.
10. Joy unspeakable.
V. Course to be taken in order to the obtaining this peace with God and enjoying the benefit of it.
1. a sense of the great breach...
2. A sense of their misery by reason of the breach, and the absolute necessity of reconciliation. All false rest must be destroyed. The world. Own righteousness.
3. A conviction that God may justly refuse ever to be at peace with us.
4. An eternal divorce of the heart from that which made and which maintains the breach.
5. The Prince of Peace must be resorted to and embraced.
6. An high war must be maintained with God's enemies.
7. A spirit of peace and love must rule in our hearts and lives.
This is the end of union between God and the soul. And this is the end of union between Christians, one with another. If we are much under the influences of a spirit contrary to this, we can't expect to have the sensible peace of God. But it you live in the lively exercise [of this] it will be the way to love.
The feeling of this gives sensible peace, as I observed before.
And it tends to give the other sort of sensible peace, that which consists in hope. "For perfect peace casts out fear."
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The Peace Which Christ Gives His True
Followers
"Peace I leave with you, my peace give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you." -- John 14:27
Subject: That peace which Christ when he died left as a legacy to all his true saints, is very diverse from all those things which the men of this world bequeath to their children.
These words are a part of a most affectionate and affecting discourse that Christ had with his disciples the same evening in which he was betrayed, knowing that he was to be crucified the next day. This discourse begins with the 31st verse of the 13th, and is continued to the end of the16th chapter. Christ began his discourse after he partook of the passover with them, after he had instituted and administered the sacrament of the supper, and after Judas was gone out, and none were left but his true and faithful disciples, whom he now addresses as his dear children. This was the last discourse that Christ had with them before his death. As it was his parting discourse, and as it were, his dying discourse, so it is on many accounts the most remarkable we have recorded in our Bibles.