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as the grievous and intolerable anguish of the wounded spirit passes understanding; by so much the peace of God, which frees him from all these, must of necessity, pass all understanding, Prov. xviii. 14.

Now that it is a fearful thing to have God to be an enemy, it is said, He is a consuming fire, Heb. xii. 29, and it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, Heb. x. 31. It appears likewise by Christ's compassion and grief for Jerusalem, who neglected the time of making and accepting of peace with God; for he wept over it, and said, Luke xix. 42, "If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong to thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes." But what it is to have God to be an enemy, is seen most fully by Christ's trouble and grief in his passion and agony in the garden, and in the extremity of his conflict with God's wrath on the cross, when God showed himself to be an enemy, and did for man's sin pour on him the fierceness of his wrath. It made him, though he was God, being man, to sweat, for very anguish, as it were drops of blood, Luke xxii. 44, and to cry. If it be possible, let this cup pass, Matt. xxvi. 39, and, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Matt. xxvii. 46.

Moreover, if you do observe the complaints of such distressed souls that have had terror of conscience, if you have not had experience thereof in yourself, how that they were at their wits' end, pricked at heart, as it were with the point of a spear, or sting of a serpent, Acts ii. 37, pained like men whose bones are broken and out of joint, Psa. li. 8, making them to roar, and to consume their spirits for very heaviness, Psa. xxxii. 4, then you will say that peace of conscience does pass all understanding.

Seventhly, When God and a man's own conscience are for him, and God's grace in some good measure has subdued sin and Satan in him, this brings with it assurance that all other things, whose peace are worth having, are also at peace with him, Hosea ii. 18 - 20. For if God be for us, who can be against