2. Secondly, the more vehemently he assaults your peace with that suggestion, “God is holy, you are unholy. You are immensely distant from that holiness, without which you cannot see God: how then can you be in the favour of God? How can you fancy you are justified?” Take the more earnest heed to hold fast, that, _Not by works of righteousness which I have done_. I am _found in him_: I am _accepted in the beloved; not having my own righteousness_ (as the cause either in whole or in part of our justification before God) _but that which is by faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith_. O bind this about your neck: write it upon the table of thy heart. Wear it as a bracelet upon thy arm, as frontlets between thine eyes: I am _justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ_. Value and esteem more and more that precious truth, _By grace we are saved through faith_. Admire more and more the free grace of God, in so loving the world as to give _his only Son, that whosoever believeth on him might not perish but have everlasting life_. So shall the sense of the sinfulness you feel on the one hand, and of the holiness you expect on the other, both contribute to establish your peace and to make it flow as a river. So shall that peace flow on with an even stream, in spite of all those mountains of ungodliness, which shall become a plain in the day when the Lord cometh, to take full possession of your heart. Neither will sickness or pain, or the approach of death, occasion any doubt or fear. You know a day, an hour, a moment with God is as a thousand years. He cannot be streightened for time, wherein to work whatever remains to be done in your soul. And God’s time is always the best time. Therefore be thou _careful for nothing_. Only _make_ thy _request known unto him_, and that not with doubt or fear, but _thanksgiving_: as being previously assured, he cannot ♦withhold from thee any manner of thing that is good.