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A28599 A short discourse of the true knowledge of Christ Jesus to which are added some passages in the reasonableness of Christianity &c. and its vindication : with some animadversions on Mr. Edward's reflections on the reasonableness of Christianity and on his book entituled Socinianism unmask'd / by S. Bold. Bold, S. (Samuel), 1649-1737. 1697 (1697) Wing B3493; ESTC R24663 19,917 58

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cured any other way but by committing himself entirely to that Person his knowledge will have this effect on him that he will render himself up entirely to his guidance and management When we are throughly sensible that we are Sinners under the Curse of the Law and justly obnoxious to the most heavy displeasure and wrath of Almighty God and that there is no way for our obtaining Peace with Him Pardon and Salvation but by Jesus Christ then our knowing him to be the only the all-sufficient and a most compassionate and gracious Saviour of Sinners will dispose and influence us to resign up our selves without reservation to his Conduct and to rely and depend on Him to save us in his own way He came to seek and to save those who are lost who are truly sensible of their lost estate All your knowledge will not avail you to Salvation tho' you can Discourse ever so accurately on every point in your Bible till it have this effect on you to make you resign up your selves unfeignedly unto Christ as your Lord. But the Person who is brought to this is Christ's Disciple a true Believer and real Christian tho' as yet he does not know any other Doctrine Christ hath taught but only engages heartily to use his best endeavours to know and understand his Lord's Will and to assent unto and perform the same as he shall attain the knowledge of it and resolvedly applies himself to fulfil and execute that engagement with ●●ll Industry and Fidelity This is that which constitutes and makes a Person a sincere Christian a real Disciple of Christ and a true Believer And his regular outward signifying and testifying of this gives him a Right to the external Denomination of a Christian c. The true notional knowledge of Christ Jesus is the same for the matter with the spiritual and practical knowledge of Him but this latter makes the Person perceive the usefulness and necessity of Christ Jesus to himself and begets in him suitable Affections to Christ He who thus knows Christ Jesus is sensible that He is the most necessary and useful Good to him and therefore cannot but love him resign up himself entirely to Him trust in Him and labour to understand and know his Will that he may explicitely believe what he hath taught and actually observe and perform what he hath appointed and commanded that thus he may approve his Fidelity and obtain the ends particularly or more especially intended by his Lord in the several instances he shall understand to be taught by Him relating either to Belief or Practice He knows that Christ Jesus is worthy of all his Service and therefore gives up himself unto Him implicitly and without exception to follow his Conduct both as to Faith and Obedience Thus when he finds or understands that Jesus Christ hath taught that He is God and that He commissioned his Apostles to teach so and that they did it very expresly he heartily assents to this Truth and believes that He is God because He hath taught it And his not being able to solve all difficulties that curious and contentious People may start about this matter or to say much or any thing concerning the Mode or way how He is God is no obstacle to his firm and stedfast Belief of it seeing he knows Christ hath declared it no more than his not being able to reconcile some matter of practice he understands Christ hath enjoyned him to his worldly Interest can excuse him from performing it Because his Resignation to Christ was absolute and entire in both respects and he did not Capitulate with Christ to believe nothing but what he should be able to dive to the bottom of and give a rational account of the mode and manner of or to obey him only in such Instances as he should know how to reconcile to his worldly Interest and Convenience What falls short of this practical knowledge of Christ Jesus is not in Scripture account the knowledge of Christ Jesus He that saith I know him and keepeth not his Commandments is a lyar and the truth is not in him 1 John 2.4 This is that knowledge of Christ Jesus the excellency whereof is such it obscures and stains the Glory of all things which can come in competition with it So that the true Christian accounts all things but loss as the Apostle expresseth himself for the excellency of it Which shall lead me to consider Thirdly In what the excellency of this knowledge of Christ Jesus doth consist Concerning which I shall mention these particulars 1st In the excellency of its object which is the revelation or discovery God hath made that Jesus Christ is the Person He hath sent and commissioned to be the Saviour of Sinners and in the proportion it hath to the special Intendment of that Revelation viz. that we may resign up our selves intirely to him and thereby be made his Disciples and be interested in Him as our Saviour or more briefly that we may believe in Him and be saved by him or be made true Christians and partake of the Benefits which belong to them It is not the bare knowing that there was such a Person as Jesus Christ in the World no nor that He was the Son of God and assumed our Nature c. but that He was sent appointed and commissioned by God to be the Saviour of Sinners This is the immediate the most proper and strict object of Christian knowledge and saving Faith Had the Son of God meerly of his own accord assumed our Nature performed the most perfect Obedience to the Law and suffered Death for our sakes how great soever the intrinsick value of his Condescention Performances and Sufferings would have been this would not have constituted or made Him the Saviour of Sinners Nor would our knowing and believing all this have availed us to Justification and Salvation That which makes what He did and suffered to be accepted for us and makes Him the Saviour of Sinners was his being appointed and commissioned to be their Saviour And it is our knowing Him to be the Person that God did send and commission for this purpose and knowing it so as to answer the design of this Revelation which doth make us Christians and interest us in Him as our Saviour For I have given them the words which thou gavest me and they have received them and have known surely that I came out from thee and they have believed that thou didst send me John 17.8 2dly In that it is a special effect and fruit of the Holy Spirit of God I will give them an Heart to know me that I am the Lord and they shall be my People and I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their whole Heart Jer. 24.7 Wherefore I give you to understand that no Man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed and that no Man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost