Is your heart right with God?
The first thing implied in this: is your heart right with God? Do you believe his being and his perfections — his eternity, immensity, wisdom, power; his justice, mercy, and truth? Do you believe that he now upholds all things by the word of his power (Hebrews 1:3), and that he governs even the most minute, even the most noxious things, to his own glory and the good of those who love him (Romans 8:28)? Have you a divine evidence, a supernatural conviction, of the things of God? Do you walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7), looking not at temporal things but at things eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18)?
1771 text
The first thing implied in this: is thy heart right with God? Dost thou believe his being, and his perfections? His eternity, immensity, wisdom, power: his justice, mercy and truth? Dost thou believe, that he now upholdeth all things, by the word of his power? And that he governs even the most minute, even the most noxious, to his own glory and the good of them that love him? Hast thou a divine evidence, a supernatural conviction, of the things of God? Dost thou walk by faith not by sight? Looking not at temporal things, but things eternal?
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 39 in the 1771 Works. 2 Kings 10:15.
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