Peace Founded on Christ’s Finished Work

Peace, then, through the exceeding riches of divine grace, is founded upon a work done for us, a redemption which is accomplished, and made sure to the heart and conscience of the believer on the Lord Jesus Christ by the word of God, brought home to him by the Holy Spirit’s power. Both the work and the Word are unchanging and eternal in their efficacy; so that amidst all the tossings and temptations to which a child of God is exposed, his peace rests on that which changeth not. Moreover it is his sweet privilege to turn to the unchangeably loving heart of God his Father, and to His testimony to the infinite value of the work of His own Son, who has “made peace through the blood of His cross,” and has assured us that “Christ is the end of the law, for righteousness to every one that believeth” (Rom. 10:4).