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 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?''

13. Dost thou believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, God over all blessed for ever? Is he ''revealed in'' thy soul? Dost thou ''know Jesus Christ and him crucified''? Does he ''dwell in thee, and thou in him''? Is he formed in thy heart by faith? Having absolutely disclaimed all thy own works, thy own righteousness, hast thou ''submitted thyself unto the righteousness of God, which is by faith in Christ Jesus''? Art thou ''found in him, not having thy own righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith''? And art thou, thro' him, ''fighting the good fight of faith, and laying hold of eternal life''?

14. Is thy faith [Greek: energoumenê di agapês]. Filled with the energy of love? Dost thou love God? I do not say, above all things; for it is both an unscriptural and an ambiguous expression: but ''with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with all thy soul and with all thy strength''? Dost thou seek all thy happiness in him alone? And dost thou find what thou seekest? Does thy soul continually ''magnify the Lord, and thy spirit rejoice in God thy Saviour''? Having learned ''in every thing to give thanks, dost thou find, it is a joyful and a pleasant thing to be thankful''? Is God the center of thy soul? The sum of all thy desires?