One of the great benefits that we enjoy by Christ's sufferings is peace, or the favour of God. Take a few scriptures: Rom. v. 1, 'Being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.' There is peace of conscience, and peace with God, which is nothing else but our atonement and reconciliation with him. Every one that is justified hath not peace of conscience; but every one that is justified hath peace with God. There is a quarrel between God and the soul because of sin; your sins have separated between God and you. Now this strife and quarrel is taken up by Christ: through Jesus it is said we have peace. He maketh God our friend; so Col. i. 20, 'And having made peace through the blood of his cross.' By the blood of his cross he took away sin and wrath.
Thomas Manton — A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah, in The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D., vol. 3 (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1870), on Isa. 53:5, p. 280
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