To be near unto God - pagina 228

This does not include experimental knowledge of God, which comes to ii3 personally from spiritual experience, from communion of saints and secret fellowship with God. The knowledge of God which comes to us from without is majestic. Confining ourselves to what Christian creeds.

nature brings, the Reformed confession truly and beautifully declares, that all creation is as a living book, the letters of which are the creatures. But the book of nature brings us no further than the recognition of the attributes of God, his power, wisdom, goodness, and so much more. It has nothing to say about life in the spiritual kingdom, of direction and rule by the Holy Ghost, of making our will one with the will of God, of having Divine love poured out into our hearts, of drawing closer to him, who is love, or of mystic contemplation. The Confession is a banner with clear inscriptions, which we lift up before the world in order to declare the glory and majesty of him whom we worship; but it is not the intimate communication of that knowledge of God which comes from the knowledge of self and from one's own experience. In these meditations

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ence to those who have enjoyed the same, or at But we have least know the yearning after it. repeatedly sounded the note of warning against sentimental emotionalism in this sanctuary of mysticism. So we come to the knowledge of God 224

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