Jonathan Edwards’ “The Peace Which Christ Gives His True Followers”

 Edwards preaches on John 14:27; “Peace I leave with you, my peace give unto you: not as  the world gives, give I unto you.”  From the phrase “My peace I give unto you.” Edwards  deducts two significant points:
 1) Christ had this one things and this was of His possession
 2) This peace is the peace He Himself enjoyed and which true believers in Christ  experience (John 15:11; 17:13)
 
As his usual emphasis is the futility of the temporal, Edwards compares worldly peace to “the ease and pleasure that a drunkard may have in a house on fire over his head, or the joy of a distracted man in thinking that he is a king, though a miserable wretch confined in bedlam.”  Meanwhile, heavenly peace, which God gives to his true followers, “is the light of life, something of the tranquility of heaven, the peace of the celestial paradise, that has the glory of God to lighten it.”
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