Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

4. Although we cannot perfectly understand the Love of Christ, in this our present state, yet may we know so much of his Love as shall be of more true use and worth than all we know besides; we may know something of God, and know it to our terror and confusion: There may be such rays of Divine knowledge let into a guilty Soul, as may make it wish it could shut them out again: And hence it is, that sinners say, Job 21.14. Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. The most ungrateful, unwelcome thing to an impenitent sinner in the World, is to see God, and to be convinced that God sees him: That Gods omniscience looks into his rotten heart; and the sinner must needs sit very uneasy under this knowledge of God, till he can see God reconciled to him in Christ, and have the light of that knowledge comfortably shinning into his heart in the face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 4.6.

4. Although we cannot perfectly understand the Love of Christ, in this our present state, yet may we know so much of his Love as shall be of more true use and worth than all we know besides; we may know something of God, and know it to our terror and confusion: There may be such rays of Divine knowledge let into a guilty Soul, as may make it wish it could shut them out again: And hence it is, that sinners say, Job 21.14. Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. The most ungrateful, unwelcom thing to an impenitent sinner in the World, is to see God, and to be convinced that God sees him: That Gods omniscience looks into his rotten heart; and the sinner must needs sit very uneasie under this knowledge of God, till he can see God reconciled to him in Christ, and have the light of that knowledge comfortably shinning into his heart in the face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 4.6.