knows, it moves me to desire, long, and seek after being made meet
1. I see that I believe the gospel, with application to myself; and find, that my expectations from it do ultimately resolve themselves on the faithfulness of God in the word of the promise of the gospel. The which is a good evidence, according to Isa. 53:1; John 3:33, 36; Heb. 10:23; 2 Tim. 1:12.
2. I find my soul acquiesceth in, being well pleased with, the covenant of grace, as God's plan of salvation in Christ; and that I have come into it with heart and good-will; taking my offered place in it in Christ the second Adam, putting down my little name within the compass of his great and glorious name. Whereby I, as a member of the mystical body of the second Adam, am as really intitled to the promise of the covenant of grace, eternal life, made to him for all his, as I was rendered liable to the penalty of the broken covenant of works, eternal death, in the first Adam; 2 Sam. 23:5; lsa. 56:4, 5; 1 Cor. 1:24; Matth. 11:6; Rom 5:19.
3. I find my heart so far at odds with sin, that if there were no other hell, but just leaving one in his sin for ever, "He that is filthy, let him be filthy still," my heart would, upon that sentence against me, break in a thousand pieces. And is not this the work of the sanctifying Spirit of Christ in me? Rom. 7:23, 24, 25, and 8:6; Gal. 5:17.
4. I have a hope of heaven, through Jesus Christ; and the Lord knows, it moves me to desire, long, and seek after being made meet for it, in purification from sin; 1 John 3:3.
5. I love the purity of the divine image expressed in the holy law, and every line of it, so far as I discern it; and even there where it strikes against the sin that most easily besets me; Heb. 8:10; Psalm 119:6; Rom. 7:22.
6. I have a measure of confidence, that I will get complete life and salvation; but that confidence is not in the flesh; for, God knows I am heartily out with myself, with respect to all the periods of my life, any one of which, I see, would undoubtedly ruin me, and that most justly.