Notes: Sect. 15. — How to recover lost evidences.
Notes: Sect. 15. — How to recover lost evidences.
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This forcing one’s self to yield obedience, which the author warns Christians against when they have lost sight of their evidences, and would gladly recover them, is by pressing to yield obedience without believing, till they have recovered the evidence of their having faith, by their obedience. To advise a Christian to beware of taking this course, in this case, is not to favour laxness, but to guard him against beginning his work at the wrong end, and so labouring in vain. For obeying, indeed, must still spring from believing, since “without faith it is impossible to please God,” Heb. 11.6. And “whatever is not of faith, is sin,” Rom. 14.23. The following advice sets the matter in full light.
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Namely, obedience, whereby you shall recover your evidence.