5. If you can come to the knowledge of Christ within you, it will be much the easier to you to trust upon him, and fly to him in all your particular necessities, and to make use of his Mediatorship with holy confidence. When others fly from Christ with trembling, and know not whether he will speak for them, or help them, or have any regard to them, but look at him with strange and doubtful thoughts, it will be otherwise with you that have assurance of his continual Love and presence. Nearness breedeth familiarity, and overcometh strangeness: Familiarity breedeth confidence, and boldness: when you find Christ so ••er you, as to dwell within you, and so particular and abundant in his Love to you, as to have given you his spirit, and all his Graces, i• will breed a sweet delightful boldness ▪ and make you […] to him as your help and refuge, in all your necessities. When ⟨p. 360⟩you find the great promise fulfilled to your selves [I will put my Law in their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more] you will [have boldness to enter into the Holyest by the blood of Jesus; by the new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high Priest over the house of God, you may draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having your hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, (or the conscience of evil) as your bodies are washed (in baptism) with pure water] Heb. 10.16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. [In Christ we may have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him] Eph. 3.12. This intimate acquaintance with our great High Priest, that is passed into the Heavens, and yet abideth and reigneth in our hearts, will encourage us to hold fast our profession, and to come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need, Heb. 4.14, 16. When by unfeigned Love, we [know that we are of the truth, and may assure our hearts before him, and our Heart condemneth us not, then we have confidence towards God; and whatever we ask we receive of him, because we ⟨p. 361⟩keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight, 1 Joh. 3.18, 19, 20, 21, 22.
5. If you can come to the knowledge of Christ within you, it will be much the easier to you to trust upon him, and fly to him in all your particular necessities, and to make use of his Mediatorship with holy confidence. When others flie from Christ with trembling, and know not whether he will speak for them, or help them, or have any regard to them, but look at him with strange and doubtful thoughts, it will be otherwise with you that have assurance of his continual Love and presence. Nearness breedeth familiarity, and overcometh strangness: Familiarity breedeth confidence, and boldness: when you find Christ so ••er you, as to dwell within you, and so particular and abundant in his Love to you, as to have given you his spirit, and all his Graces, i• will breed a sweet delightful boldness ▪ and make you 〈…〉 to him as your help and refuge, in all your necessities. When ⟨p. 360⟩you find the great promise fulfilled to your selves [I will put my Law in their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more] you will [have boldness to enter into the Holyest by the blood of Jesus; by the new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high Priest over the house of God, you may draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having your hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, (or the conscience of evil) as your bodies are washed (in baptism) with pure water] Heb. 10.16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. [In Christ we may have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him] Eph. 3.12. This intimate acquaintance with our great High Priest, that is passed into the Heavens, and yet abideth and reigneth in our hearts, will encourage us to hold fast our profession, and to come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need, Heb. 4.14, 16. When by unfeigned Love, we [know that we are of the truth, and may assure our hearts before him, and our Heart condemneth us not, then we have confidence towards God; and whatever we ask we receive of him, because we ⟨p. 361⟩keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight,
