Religion & morality > Human nature in its fourfold state

Head. n.» ai united tc Chrijl. 3^7
be made friends that way. The Apcft’e’s ru’e is plain'
Heb. xii. 14. FcHo-di peace u :th all vien} and kolinejs.
To follow peace no further than our humour, credit,
■d fuch like things will
allow us, is too
ill or t:
to
piufue it further than holinefs (that is conformity ter
the divine will) allows us, is too far. Peace is preci¬
ous, yet it may be boupht too dear : wherefore we
muff rather want it, than purchafc it, at the expence
\ of truth or ho’inefs : But other wife it cannot be over-
i dear bought; and it will always be precious in the
eyes of the fens of peace.
[I II. And new, tinners, what fhall I fay to you ?
I have given ycu fome view of the privileges of thel’e
in die liafe of giace: ye have feen them afar off.
But, alas ! they are riot yours, beenufe ye are not
Cbrill’s, 'i he finfulntfs of an unregenerate Bate is.
yours; and the n.if ry of it is yours aifo : but, ye
have neither pait nor lot in this matter. The guilt
of all your fin lies upon you : ye have no part in the
tighteoufnefs of Chrilt. There is no peace to you ;
01 no peace with God, no true peace of confcience ; for
ill1 ye have no faring intertH in the great Peace-maker,
||Ye are none of God’s family: the adoption we fpoke of,
(jjbelongs not to you. Ye have no part in the Spirit
l|of fanclification ; and, in one word, ye have no inhe-
uljritance among them that are fandbified. Ail 1 can fay
#0 you in this matter, is. that the cafe is net defperate,
: they may yet be yours, Rev iii. 20. Behold! IJtand
at the door and knock : ij any man hear my vcice, and
“ open the door, 1 ■will come in to him, and-will Jup -with
s him, and he ■with me. H eaven is propofing an union
1 with earth ftijl, the potter is making fait to his own
; clay and the ,gates of the city of refuge are not yet-
1 doled. O ! that we could compel you to come in.
Thus far cf the State of Grace,