A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

3 He gives them experience, that their hearts do as plainly feel, as their understandings know; nay these Babes, they fetch their understanding from the feeling of their hearts, they know the danger of sin, and the worth of Christ, and this puts them to reach after Christ, and look at him as the most excellent of a thousand, and so they come to find true fellowship with Christ, by putting into them a spirit of peace, 1 Pet. 3.8. so that they know it not only by faith, but by experience, and so they know the truth as it is in Christ; you may have men by hearing and study, come to know very largely of the ways of Grace; the Doctrines and points of Divinity; nay, they may come to approve of them, and may convince an adversary, but yet this is not properly a knowledge of these things, but an understanding of them; a man that wants this Unction may say, he understands these, and believes them, but he cannot say he knows them by any sensible work of God on his own soul.

3 He gives them experience, that their hearts do as plainly feel, as their understandings know; nay these Babes, they fetch their understanding from the feeling of their hearts, they know the danger of sin, and the worth of Christ, and this puts them to reach after Christ, and look at him as the most excellent of a thousand, and so they come to finde true fellowship with Christ, by puting into them a spirit of peace, 1 Pet. 3.8. so that they know it not only by faith, but by experience, and so they know the truth as it is in Christ; you may have men by hearing and study, come to know very largely of the wayes of Grace; the Doctrins and points of Divinity; nay, they may come to approve of them, and may convince an adversary, but yet this is not properly a knowledge of these things, but an understanding of them; a man that wants this Unction may say, he understands these, and beleeves them, but he cannot say he knowes them by any sensible worke of God on his own soul.

Use 1 May exhort all (in the name of the Lord) that intend to receive the Sacrament, to a conscionable care and endeavour to get knowledge, it is not a privilege of Scholars, but even of very Babes, if they have received this Unction, therefore let none excuse themselves, for if the Apostle acknowledge it in Babes, it may shame elder people, if they be ignorant of the rudiments of Religion, therefore labour to grow up to a knowledge of the truth, there is no hope that you should either find comfort in Gods Ordinances here, or in the life to come, if you be ignorant of the truth,