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IIt is a while since I included a quotation from the Puritan John Howe. Here he is exploring different aspects of knowing God:
To know his methods, and the course of his dispensations towards the world, his Church, and especially our own spirits: This is a great knowledge of God, to have the skill to trace his footsteps and observe, by comparing times with times, that such a course he more usually holds; and accordingly, with great probability, collect from what we have seen and observed, what we may expect; what order and succession there is of storms of wrath to clouds of sin; and again of peaceful lucid intervals, when such storms have inferred penitential tears; in what exigencies, and distresses, humble mourners may expect God’s visits and consolations; and from such experiences still to argue ourselves into fresh reviving hopes, when the state of things, whether public or private, outward or spiritual, seems forlorn.
