_Vse._ This may serve _to exhort us_ all, to examine our selves according to this rule. For if wee make no reckoning at all, of the meanes and instruments of grace, but doe reject or despise those, that labour most to procure this grace and peace for us, we have cause to feare, that we are yet farre from the nature, and disposition of true beleevers. Doctrine 3. _They which have gone farthest in faith and grace, have yet need of grace._ This is gathered therehence, that the Apostle wisheth grace unto those, that have obtained like precious faith, with the Apostles themselves. _Vse_ 1. This may serve _to refute_ the Papists of their merits. 2. _To exhort us_ to humility, and continuall prayer for the grace of God. Doctrine 4. _Without Grace, there is no true peace._ Grace is the cause and foundation of peace, peace the effect and fruit of grace; it is the inheritance, which Christ left unto his disciples alone, _Iohn 14.27._ _Isaiah 48.last_. For this peace is not an externall and worldly peace, but spirituall and internall. Before we are partakers of grace, we are called in Scripture, _Gods enemies_, so that we doe wage a kind of warre against God himselfe, and therefore also against the Angels of God, and other of his creatures. Now by grace, and by it alone is peace made. _Vse._ This may serve _to refute and reprove_ the folly of those men, which so please themselves, in that outward quietnesse which they enjoy, when in the meane time, they are utterly void and ignorant of the grace of God. Doctrine 5. _We must seeke not only for grace and peace, but also for great abundance of it._ This is gathered from that word, _Grace and peace be multiplyed_. For the good things of that grace are such, that they cannot be too much: in this there is no sinning in excesse. Hence it is that the Apostle _Paul_ alwayes exhorts the faithfull, and prayes also that the faithfull may abound more and more in all grace. And to the _Ephesians_ he proposeth the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of this grace, that they may be rooted and grounded in it, Chapter 3. verse 18. _Use_ 1. This may serve to refute and condemne those, that so rest in the present grace which they have, or seeme to have, that they looke for no more. Such do those men seeme to be, that thinke they know enough, beleeve enough, love enough, &c. And therefore they neglect both the publick and the private meanes, whereby they might be farther edified. The state of a Christian in this life is a state of building, not perfection: therefore as he would shew himselfe to be a foolish builder, that should rest in the middle of his worke, and not make up the perfect structure, so also in a Christian life. 2. To exhort us to stirre up our selves, and labour for more abundant grace and peace.