True or false.

Herman Witsius has written:

“From what has been said it is evident, this spiritual peace differs very much from carnal security. For, 1st. The latter arises from mere ignorance of one’s own state, into which he never made any serious enquiry, or in forming a judgment about it, he deceived himself by false reasoning. But the former rests upon a sure foundation, and is preceded by sorrow for sin, a sense of misery, a hunger and thirst after grace. 2dly. The latter makes a man well pleased with, and to have an inward joy on account of that imaginary good, though in other respects he neglects God; whereas the former ravishes the soul with admiration of the divine goodness and makes him confess himself unworthy of so great an honour and favour. 3dly. By the latter men are swallowed up in pleasure, are dull and heavy in that which is good, and unhappily give themselves up to an irregular life, thinking “they shall have peace though they walk in the imagination of their heart,” Deut. xxix. 19. But the former keeps the heart in safety, Phil. iv. 7. that they may be in the fear of God continually; and this is what neither can be obtained, nor preserved without a strict exercise of godliness. 4thly. Though the latter falsely imagines, that he is the object of God’s love, yet he himself is destitute of all love to God. But the former consists in mutual friendship. The same Abraham, who Jam. ii. 23. is called friend, is Isa. xli. 8. called the lover of God.”

(Witsius, Herman. The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man, Volume I, Kingsburg, CA: den Dulk Christian Foundation, 1990, p. 440-441)