I00 Mr. Baxter's veiling all theCe things : And think it not enough that the Scrip,. ture is true, or that you are refolved Co to believe, but get the belt grounds for your belief: be well eflablifbed on thole grounds: Read the Scripture-much, till you are acquainted with, and relifh the matter and language, and feel the power, and tif I all be delight- ful to your fouls in reading. And be not ashamed to underftand t h'e Fundamentals : look toyour Catechi5nes: The Fundamentals of Religion you mutt underfland and receive. And when you have got them into your head, be lure you get them intoyour heart, and never think any truth received as it ought, till it hathdone Come fpecial work on your heart; till you believe that God is Almighty, fill% Holy, &c. and all the Attributes of God have made their ho.; ly impreffion on your heart :- that the fathifying knowledge of God bath warmedyour affeecions, captivated your fouls, that. God be inthroned in your hearts by the belief and knowledge of your minds : Know your felves Co as to be humble : know Chrifi fo as he may be fweet unto you, and exalted by you : fet ctp drift in your fouls neareft toyour hearts :know fin as to hate it, &c. 'Tis the en-. tertainment of the good things of the GoCpel by the will that is the principal part ofyour Religion. 'Tis a matter eflamentable conic- (pence in all your lives,when there is not a found work at the heart: how little life will there be from any truth in reading or hearing ? The Fundamentals of Religion muff be Co received, as not only to have an old heart mended, but a new heart made. Thus under- fiand , believe, and give up thy heart to that thou believe and underflandeft. 2. Know and remember the workof your Salvation, mull be as long asyour lives ; and that you have never done,till you have done living. I give this direaion becaufe I find fomething in Chriflia- nity, the remains of Carnality is apt to hinder, &'c. and Come pto- feffors when converted, they are reconciled to God, and Cafe, &c. butthere's a great deal tobe done after, &e. 3. Underftand well wherein it isyour confirmation, flability, rootednefs, and growth in Religion cloth confift. The chief pact ofyour growth in grace is not to know more things than you knew before : but to grow in the knowledge, belief, eniertainment, and improvement of the Came truths that at fira you did receive : ( not that you may not or flionld not knowmore, for the clear knowledge of the fundamentals, guide you unavoidably to the fight of many other truths, which a darker knowledgeof thole fundamentals will not difcover to you. ) `Tis not additional to your former know- ledge, but theclearer knowing, founder believing, heartier enter- taining
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