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…

6. From the root of confidence, which springs partly from Gods nature, partly from faith in Christ, partly from the unction of the Spirit; now for those things we see many promises belong to us, our adoption assures us of Gods Nature, that he is a merciful Father; our Father assures us that Christ is our Advocate; the unction of the Spirit breeds in us experience that we have the Son, that we are Sons; it assures us of our election, vocation, and salvation; and if it assure us of greater matters, then much more of the grant of our prayers, Rom. 8.32. But now knowledge is a further work, knowledge springs either from sense or experience? Now then this unction of the Spirit which gives us experience, not only gives us confidence, but knowledge, that our prayers are heard, Eph. 3.19. This Spirit of God in our hearts, gives us both sensible and experimental knowledge of Gods favour, and breeds certain knowledge of the hearing and having our petitions granted; hearing, that is, of Gods accepting them, Verba sensus cum affectu, & effectu sunt intelligenda; and having, that is, of the performing and fulfilling of our desires, chiefly of the ends and aims of our prayers.

6. From the root of confidence, which springs partly from Gods nature, partly from faith in Christ, partly from the unction of the Spirit; now for those things we see many promises belong to us, our adoption assures us of Gods Nature, that he is a mercifull Father; our Father assures us that Christ is our Advocate; the unction of the Spirit breeds in us experience that we have the Son, that we are Sons; it assures us of our election, vocation, and salvation; and if it assure us of greater matters, then much more of the grant of our prayers, Rom. 8.32. But now knowledge is a further work, knowledge springs either from sense or experience? Now then this unction of the Spirit which gives us experience, not only gives us confidence, but knowledge, that our prayers are heard, Eph. 3.19. This Spirit of God in our hearts, gives us both sensible and experimentall knowledge of Gods favour, and breeds certain knowledge of the hearing and having our petitions granted; hearing, that is, of Gods accepting them, Verba sensus cum affectu, & effectu sunt intelligenda; and having, that is, of the performing and fulfilling of our desires, chiefly of the ends and aims of our prayers.