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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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III. For the third particular, viz. The Trial of thy knowledge, whether it be a true saving knowledge, thou mayest know it by the properties thereof; some whereof are these.
III. For the third particular, viz. The Tryal of thy knowledge, whether it be a true saving knowledge, thou mayest know it by the properties thereof; some whereof are these.
1 True saving knowledge is Experimental, whereby a Christian hath a spiritual sense and feeling of what he knows. He hath not only a general, and a notional knowledge of God, and of his own miserable condition by nature, and of Jesus Christ; but he hath likewise an experimental knowledge of God, and of his Attributes; as of his power in supporting him under his trials and temptations, of his faithfulness in making good his promises unto him. He hath likewise a sensible feeling of his own wretched condition by nature. And an experimental knowledge of Jesus Christ, so that he knoweth Christ to be his Saviour and Redeemer, and resteth upon his merits alone for life and for salvation. By this then try and examine thy knowledge, &c.
1 True saving knowledge is Experimental, whereby a Christian hath a spiritual sense and feeling of what he knows. He hath not only a general, and a notional knowledge of God, and of his own miserable condition by nature, and of Jesus Christ; but hee hath likewise an experimental knowledge of God, and of his Attributes; as of his power in supporting him under his trials and temptations, of his faithfulness in making good his promises unto him. He hath likewise a sensible feeling of his own wretched condition by nature. And an experimental knowledge of Jesus Christ, so that he knoweth Christ to be his Saviour and Redeemer, and resteth upon his merits alone for life and for salvation. By this then try and examine thy knowledge, &c.