Joshua

“The Church, indeed, while still dwelling on the earth as a stranger, learns the blessedness of believers from the lips of the Lord, (Isaiah 32:18,) “My people will walk in the beauty of peace, and in the tents of trust, and in rich rest.” She herself, on the other hand, giving thanks, sings to the Lord while blessing her, (Isaiah 26:12,) “O Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast performed all our works for us.” Believers have this PEACE on receiving the gospel, when they see that God, whom they dreaded as their Judge, has become their Father; themselves, instead of children of wrath, children of grace; and the bowels of the divine mercy poured out toward them, so that now they expect from God nothing but goodness and mildness. But since human life on earth is a warfare, (Job 7:1,) those who feel both the stings of sin and the remains of the flesh, must feel depression in the world, though with consolation in God - such consolation, however, as does not leave the mind perfectly calm and undisturbed. But when they shall be divested of flesh and the desires of the flesh, (which, like domestic enemies, break their peace,) then at length will they rest and recline with God: For thus speaks the Prophet, “The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and men of mercy are gathered: for the just is gathered from the face of wickedness. Let peace come, let him who hath walked under his direction rest in his bed.” (Isaiah 57:1.) Does he not call those to peace who had been the sons of peace? Still, as their peace was with God, and they had war in the world, he calls them to a higher degree of peace.”
― John Calvin, The Collected Works of John Calvin. Illustated: Psychopannychia, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Commentaries and others