Use, 5. Those that have assurance of their peace with God; highly to prise it.
HEnce then if our Reconciliation with God be such as hath been opened, and if it be wrought after that way; Then an other Use we may make of it is this. Namely: That al those that have any comfortable assurance that their peace is made with God, they are to prise it highly, and not easily, and lightly to loose the assurance of it; Why? Because it hath cost so much as it hath done, and it hath been wrought for them after such a strange manner as it hath been; the greatest work that ever God made; and wherein his wisdome, and goodness, and power hath been seen; now that which God hath set himselfe to worke so powerfully in, to the end that he might acom∣plish it; and that which hath cost so dear as it hath done; that wherein so much of the mistery of Godliness is contained; suerly then if we have obtained the assu∣rance of it in our selves, we should highly prise it, and we should seeke to preserve it, and not loose it; we know not how. I remember when we opened the excellency of