_.,.:· \ An Expojition of the Epiftle ~AllTruths that you know, you know them by a way of wifdom, and by fuch a Ser,XlX, way indeed a man's heart is fettied in them ; but wh~n you. come to converfe ~ with God, ofteotimes, God wtll m a more efpec1al and tmmed~ate manner reveal himfelf to you. It is not a Revelation to draw men from the Word; No, but ufually God cometh down upon the wings of fome Promife, or fame Word of his , and in that Promife puuing an immediate beam of light from Heaven into it reveal– eth himfelf to a man's Soul, that a man knoweth more of God in half an hour than he hath done in all his life. ' And becaufe the Apofile would have the Ephejimu grow up in both , aim at both, be prays for both. He prays, that they might know God both in a way of wifdom and reve!atio11, ·and both joyned together make perfect Chrifiians indeed. Weak Underfiandings oftentimes know God much in fuch a way of revelatio11, when they cannot in a way of wifdom; but to know him in a way of w ifdom, and to have Perfonal communion with him in that way of reve!atio11, (as I have opened it) it makes a firong Chrifiian fit for the profit of others. For this other k11owtedge, a man faith, Indeed I have feeo God and his Good– nefs, and I have tafied of it; but I can fcarce give an account of him in a ra. tional way, as a man may do by the knowledge he hath of God in a way of wifdom. Both together therefore make perfeCt Chrifiians, And fo much for the opening of this, which I have. been the longer about, becaufe I ddired to fini!h this 17th Verfe; and it was neceffary alfo to infia fo long, for the explaining thefe things. SER~
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