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Love is the only attribute which God hath acted to the utmost. We have never seen the utmost of His power, what God can do, but we have seen the utmost of His love: He hath found a ransom for lost souls (Job 33:24).
Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.
We may have excellent notions in divinity, but the Holy Ghost must enable us to know them after a spiritual manner; a man may see the figures upon a dial, but he cannot tell how the day goes unless the sun shine. We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly till God's Spirit does shine upon us (1 Cor. 2:10).
The knowledge of a godly man is self-emptying; carnal knowledge makes the head giddy with pride (1 Cor. 8:2). True knowledge brings a man out of love with himself; the more he knows, the more he blushes at his own ignorance.
The knowledge of a godly man is growing. True knowledge is like the light of the morning, which increases in the horizon till it comes to the full meridian. So sweet is spiritual knowledge that the more a saint knows, the more thirsty he is of knowledge.
The mind is to the heart as the door to the house; what comes into the heart comes in at the understanding, which is introductive to it.
Remember that as it is Christ's work to teach, it is yours to hear and read and study and pray and practice what you hear. Do your part, then, if you expect the benefit. You come not to the school of Christ to be idle. Knowledge drops not into the sleepy dreamer's mouth. Dig for it, as for silver, and search for it in the Scriptures as for a hidden treasure.
Heaven is a freedom from all evil both of sin and suffering, so that a name in heaven entitles us to a blessed redemption from all evil. There is no sin there. Grace weakens sin, but it is glory that abolishes it. Old Adam shall there be put off, never be put on again. The Lord Christ will present His church in that day, "faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy" (Jude 24). There is no affliction there. Sin and sorrow came in together, and they shall go out together.
Many men are changed in a moral sense, and one may say they are become new men, but they are in heart and nature the same men still. They are not changed in a spiritual and supernatural sense, and therefore it cannot be said of them they are become new creatures. Restraining grace may cause a moral change, but it is renewing grace that must cause a saving change. Now many are under restraining grace, and so changed morally, that are not under the power of renewing grace, and so changed savingly.
If you would know whether your names are written in heaven, satisfy yourselves in this: that the call of God hath took effectual hold of your hearts. Hath it brought your souls off from every thing below Christ wholly to follow Christ? It is said when Christ called Peter and Andrew, they presently "left their nets, and followed him" (Matt. 4:18–20). Every man hath his nets, somewhat that his soul is entangled in, till the call of God take hold of him. Can you now, with Peter, when God calls, lay aside your nets to follow Him?
Let me caution you, lest, instead of gaining Christ by your knowledge, you rather lose him, by putting your knowledge in the place of Christ, and trusting on it for your salvation.
I well know, that the little measure of knowledge I have obtained in the things of God has not being owing to my own wisdom and docility, but to his goodness.
A distinctly Christian view of all things centres on recognising Christ as the religious foundation to all knowledge.
Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.Preface, Freedom of the Will
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