CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

4. Another inward effect must be a melting, sorrowful and grieved heart that we have provoked God by our sins: For who can but grieve and lament his folly, when he knoweth how great and terrible a God he hath provoked: Thus Manasseh, after his great troubles and afflictions laid upon him, when he had prayed, mourned and humbled himself, it's said, Then Manasseh knew that God was the Lord: Then he knew, not before, 2 Chron. 33.13. A man then truly comes to know God, when through the apprehension of his Majesty and glorious power, he abhorreth himself, is afflicted because of his rebellions: As you see when Job had a further discovery of Gods greatness, how greatly he debased himself.

4. Another inward effect must be a melting, sorrowfull and grieved heart that we have provoked God by our sinnes: For who can but grieve and lament his folly, when he knoweth how great and terrible a God he hath provoked: Thus Manasseh, after his great troubles and afflictions laid upon him, when he had prayed, mourned and humbled himself, it's said, Then Manasseh knew that God was the Lord: Then he knew, not before, 2 Chron. 33.13. A man then truly comes to know God, when through the apprehension of his Majesty and glorious power, he abhorreth himself, is afflicted because of his rebellions: As you see when Job had a further discovery of Gods greatnesse, how greatly he debased himself.

5. A genuine and proper effect of the knowledge of God and Christ, is trust and dependence upon them. This is so great a matter, that it's called the just mans life, The just shall live by faith, Heb. 2.4. Now this grace of trust or dependence is branched into two parts: First. A trust on God for his protection, care and providence over us: This is the trust David doth so often speak of in his Psalms; ⟨p. 86⟩