access to the Father (Eph. 2:18)—into his love; finds out that he is love, as having a design, a purpose of love, a good pleasure toward us from eternity—a delight, a complacency, a goodwill in Christ—all cause of anger and aversation22 being taken away. The soul being thus, by faith through Christ, and by him, brought into the bosom of God, into a comfortable persuasion and spiritual perception and sense of his love, there reposes23 and rests itself. And this is the first thing the saints do,
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