The works of George Swinnock, M.A

Twelfthly, If thou wouldst exercise thy self to godliness, study the knowledge of God. Tis ignorance of God, that is the original of all sin. Did men know the sad fruits of his fury, they durst not by sin provoke him. Did men know the sweetness of his favour, they would do, they would suffer any ⟨p. 802⟩thing to please him. It is in the mist of ignorance that they lose their way, and wander from him who is the chiefest good. The Devil is bound in chains of darkness, and so are all his Children.

Twefthly, If thou wouldst exercise thy self to godliness, study the knowledge of God. Tis ignorance of God, that is the original of all sin. Did men know the sad fruits of his fury, they durst not by sin provoke him. Did men know the sweetness of his favour, they would do, they would suffer any ⟨p. 802⟩thing to please him. It is in the mist of ignorance that they lose their way, and wander from him who is the chiefest good. The Devil is bound in chains of darkness, and so are all his Children.

They who know God most, love him most, and fear him most, and trust him most. It is life (spiritual, and the seed of life) eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent, Joh. 17. 3. All godliness, all grace, is seminally in the knowledge of God, and floweth from it. They who with open face behold the Lord, though but as in a glass, are changed into his image, from glory to glory; from one degree of grace to another, • Cor. 3. 18.

They who know God most, love him most, and fear him most, and trust him most. It is life (spi••tual, and the seed of life) eternal, to know thee the onely true God, and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent,