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it did admit of some peace and quiet, it will grow more turbulent, mad, and furious; and, if God give not repentance, this false peace ends for the most part either in a reprobate mind, Rom. i. 21 - 29, or a desperate end, Matt. xxvii. 5, even in this life, besides the hellish horrors in that which is to come.

Now to the end that no man should quiet his heart in this false and dangerous peace, whether it proceed from the aforementioned causes, or any other; I would advise him to try his peace, whether it be not false, by these infallible marks:

1. Is any man at peace with God's enemies, allowing himself in the love of those things or persons which hate God and which are hated of God, such as are the world and the things of the world, whereby he denies the power of godliness: delighting in any evil company, or living in any wilful or gross sin, as vain or false swearing, open profanation of the sabbath, malice, adultery, theft, lying, or in any of those mentioned, 2 Tim. iii. 2, 3, or in any known sin with allowance? The Holy Ghost saith of such, that the love of God is not in them, therefore the peace of God is not in them, 1 John ii. 15; and whosoever makes himself a friend to his lusts and to the world, makes himself an enemy of God, James iv. 4. If any man be at peace with the flesh, the world, and the devil, he is not at true peace with God, nor God with him. If any such expect peace, and should ask, Is it peace? answer may be made like to that which Jehu made, What have you to do with peace? What peace, so long as your notorious sins and rebellions, wherein you delight, are so many? 2 Kings ix. 19, 22. For he that cares not to keep a good conscience towards God and towards men, cannot have true peace of conscience, Heb. xiii. 18. For there is no true peace but in a good conscience.

2. Is any man not at peace, but at war rather, with God's friends, and with the things which God loves; being out of love with spiritual and devout prayer, hearing the word, the company of God's people, and the like? If any man despise the things that God