is your heavenly Father, and Christ Jesus your Redeemer, and that you are of his family, having your name written in heaven, you then will easily free your heart from being troubled with fear and restless care, John xiv. 1, 2; being sure that your heavenly Father and Saviour does and will provide for you.

(4.) Lastly, you must often renew your acts of faith on God, his promises and providence, casting all your care on him; making your request known to God by prayer and supplication, for what you would have; being heartily thankful for what you have had, now have, and hope to have hereafter. Then the peace of God which passes all understanding, Phil. iv. 6, 7, shall keep your heart and mind from vexing thoughts, and heart-distressing fears, and that, in and through Christ Jesus; of which peace I intend next to speak.

CHAPTER XIII. OF PEACE WITH GOD.

THE NATURE AND EXCELLENCY OF PEACE WITH GOD.

That you may be persuaded to walk before God in uprightness, in all well-pleasing, and to live without taking anxious thought about any thing, casting your care on God according to the former directions; God has assured you that peace shall be upon you, Gal. vi. 16, even that peace of God which passes all understanding, which shall keep your heart and mind through Christ Jesus, Phil. iv. 6, 7, if you thus do.

Peace and quiet is most desirable. All things that have motion desire it as their perfection: bodily things enjoy it by their rest in their places; reasonable things enjoy this peace in the quiet of their mind and heart,