As if our Lord had said, "Whatever outward trouble the world gives you, be not afraid of it before it comes, nor troubled at it when it is come, for. will give you inward peace in the midst of all your outward troubles. Not as the world giveth, give. unto you."

Where note, That Christ's peace is vastly different from that peace which is given or enjoyed by the world; the world may wish peace, yet never intend it; or they may wish it, yet not be able to give it: but Christ's peace is real and effectual, solid and substantial; the world's peace is only. freedom from outward trouble, but Christ's peace is. deliverance from inward guilt: and though it doth not give us an exemption from outward trouble, yet it gives us. sanctified use and improvement of them, and assures us of. joyful issue and deliverance out of them.

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