Righteousness and peace
And it is good in its effects, as well as in its nature. As the tree is, so are its fruits. The fruits of the law of God written in the heart, are righteousness and peace and assurance forever (Isaiah 32:17). Or rather, the law itself is righteousness, filling the soul with a peace which passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7), and causing us to rejoice evermore, in the testimony of a good conscience toward God. It is not so properly a pledge, as an earnest of our inheritance, being a part of the purchased possession. It is God made manifest in our flesh, and bringing with him eternal life: assuring us by that pure and perfect love, that we are sealed to the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30): that he will spare us as a man spares his own son that serves him (Malachi 3:17), in the day when he makes up his jewels, and that there remains for us a crown of glory which does not fade away (1 Peter 5:4).
1771 text
12. And it is good in its effects, as well as in its nature. As the tree is, so are its fruits. The fruits of the law of God written in the heart, are righteousness and peace and assurance for ever. Or rather, the law itself is righteousness, filling the soul with a peace which passeth all understanding, and causing us to rejoice evermore, in the testimony of a good conscience toward God. It is not so properly a pledge, as an earnest of our inheritance, being a part of the purchased possession. It is God made manifest in our flesh, and bringing with him eternal life: assuring us by that pure and perfect love, that we are sealed unto the day of redemption: that he will spare us as a man spareth his own son that serveth him, in the day when he maketh up his jewels, and that there remaineth for us a crown of glory which fadeth not away.
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Sermon 34 in the 1771 Works. Romans 7:12.
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