The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

Direction 8.

Get more spiritual acquaintance with God: the spiritual knowledge of God is the foundation of all the practise of religion: we know him and love him we know him and obey him, we know him and submit to him, we know him, and put our trust in him Psal. 9:10: they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: in this way men come to believe at first, and in this way their hearts come to be more settled in a way of believing: if men understood more what ⟨p. 351⟩God is, that would deliver them from their doubtings, 2 Tim: 1:12: I know whom I have believed: the more the soul sees of God, the more he is satisfied that it is safe venturing upon his Word; when we understand what a glorious faithful God the Lord is, we see that we have sure ground to go upon: and when we understand the riches of Gods grace; that removes that great objection from our unworthiness, which made men think that God was not free to save them, and made them think he did not mean them in the invitations of the Gospel, therefore make it your care to get as much acquaintance with God as you can, revive upon your hearts the remembrance of those discoveries, that formerly God has given you, and be in the use of means, to get new discoveries of the glory of God, wait upon him to that end in the ways he has appointed, and exercise faith upon the Lord Jesus as the great Prophet of his Church who bid us come to him that our eyes may be anointed with eye salve that we may see, Rev: 3:18:

Get more spiritual acquaintance with God: the spiritual knowledg of God is the foundation of all the practise of religion: we know him and love him we know him and obey him, we know him and submit to him, we know him, and put our trust in him