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Select tracts from the writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall
Select tracts from the writings of the Rev J Hall Author:Joseph Hall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: man: the holy seeks to the unjust; the potter, to the clay; the king, to the traitor. We are unworthy, that we should be received to peace, though we desired it:... more » what are we then, that we should have peace offered for the receiving An easy condition of so great a benefit! he requires us not to earn it, but to accept it of him : what could he give more ? what could he require less of us ? SECTION VI. The Receipt of our Peace offered by Faith.—A Corollary of the Benefit of this Receipt.—The vain Shifts of the Guilty. The purchase, therefore, of our peace was paid at once ; yet must be severally reckoned to every soul, whom it shall benefit. If we have not a hand to take what Christ's hand doth either hold or offer, what is sufficient in him cannot be effectual to us. The spiritual hand, whereby we apprehend the sweet offers of our Saviour, is faith; which, in short, is no other than an affiance in the Mediator. Receive peace, and be happy; believe, and thou hast received. From hence it is, that we are interested in all, that either God hath promised, or Christ hath performed: hence have we from God, both forgiveness and love ; the ground of all, either peace or glory: hence, of enemies we become, more than friends, sons; and, as sons, may both expect and challenge, not only careful provision and safe protection on earth, but an everlasting patrimony above. This field is so spacious, that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it: and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way; wherein I would have measured more paces, -were it not, that our scope is not so much to magnify the benefit of our peace, as to seek how to obtain it. Behold now, after we have sought heaven and earth, where only the wearied dove may find an olive of...« less