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towards God; and is the fountain from which the second floweth.

The second kind, or rather further degree, of peace of God, is the operation and manifestation of the former peace, which is a peace of God in man wrought by the Spirit of God, through the apprehension that God is at peace with him.

This peace is partly and most sensibly in the conscience, which is called peace of conscience, and may also be called peace of justification, according to that, being justified by faith, we have peace with God, &c., Rom. v. 1. And it is partly in the whole reasonable man, whereby the will and affections of the soul agree within themselves, and are subject to the enlightened mind, conspiring all of them against the common adversaries of God and the soul, i. e., the flesh and the devil: this may be called peace of sanctification: according to that of the apostle, Rom. vi. 22; being made free from sin, and become servants of God, you have your fruit unto holiness. This is the agreement of all the members, to become servants to righteousness unto holiness, Rom. vi. 19. Not but there will be warring always in our members, but it is not the warring so much of one member against another, as the warring of the flesh in every member against the Spirit, which Spirit also wars against the flesh. This conflict between the flesh and the Spirit, beginning in man, as soon as the Spirit has wrought the peace of holiness, in setting the soul in order.

Moreover, this peace of sanctification consists in this, that although a Christian must never be, nor ever is at peace with sin, so that it does not assault and molest him, or that he should subject himself to it, or have it absolutely subject to him in this life, yet he has a peace and quiet, in comparison, from sin, in as much as he is freed from the dominion and power of sin, Rom. vi. 14, 22, to condemn him, or to reduce him to his former bondage unto sin. Now so far as a man gets a conquest over his lusts, that they are kept under, and forbear to assault and molest him, so far he may be said to have this peace of sanctification.