CHAP. XVIII. How we shall make use of Christ, as the Truth, that we may win to right and suteable thoughts of God.
This is a case, that much troubleth the people of God. They cannot get right and sutable thoughts of God, which they earnestly desire to have; nor know not how to win at them. And certane it is, He only who is the Truth, and came out of the bosome of the Father, can helpe here. Therefore, for our use making of Him for this end; It would be remembered.
1. That the minde of man, through the fall, is nothing but a masse of ignorance and blindenesse; that the understanding is darkned Ephes. 4: 17, 18. And naturally we are in darknesse 1 Iohn. 2: 9, 11. Yea under the power of darknesse. Col. 1: 13. And, which is more, our mindes naturally are filled with prejudice against God and enmity, through wicked∣nesse, naturally resideing there, and which the Prince of the powers of the aire, the Spirit that worketh in the children of disobediance, increaseth and stirreth up.
2. That this evil is not totally taken away, even in the godly, but helped only in pairt: for they see