True saving peace loves to be examined, is willing to be examined, it loves to be tried. But false peace, cannot endure examination, it flies from the light, it doth not love to be tried.
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- monergism.comWilliam Bridge, A Lifting Up for the Downcast, Sermon I (The Good Man's Peace) (monergism.com)Used on 2 quotes
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Good men seek peace for grace sake; but wicked men and hypocrites, seek grace for peace sake. When you do make your addresses for peace, be sure you come to Christ in uprightness; and take heed that you do not desire pea…
And as faith doth justify and give peace at the first, so the renewing of this act of faith doth renew our peace; and what is my justifying faith, but in time of temptation to leave myself and condition upon Christ alone…
We do not live by feeling, but by faith: it is the duty of a Christian to begin with faith, and so to rise up to feeling: you would begin with feeling, and so come down to faith; but you must begin with faith, and so ris…
True saving peace will live in the sight of sin.
The saints and people of God have no reason for their discouragements, whatever their condition be.