"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus ." -P HILIPPIANS 3:13-14 [KJV] The faith that rests short of believing in, laying hold of, and resting upon the Son of God in HIS FINISHED WORK , will not be the work of faith that God will own and crown with H is approbation; the love that never labours for an entrance into the mysteries of H is dying love, will be found to be a love more in lip and tongue than in heart and life; and the hope that anchors in anything short of the finished work of the Son of God , will be a brittle cable which will snap asunder, or a rotten piece of iron which will break in the first heavy storm. Do not rest in the knowledge of a few doctrines in the letter of truth. Do not take up with a few passing thoughts and feelings; ...

"Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the L ORD ." -H OSEA 6:3 [KJV] We gather from these words that there is such a thing in soul experience as "a following on to know the Lord;" and indeed there is no obtaining the blessings which are laid up for the righteous, unless there is this following on. "To know the Lord" is the desire of every living soul; that is, to know H im by H is own divine manifestations, by the gracious revelation of H is grace, H is love, H is presence, and H is glory. But the expression, "follow on," implies that there are many difficulties, obstacles, and hindrances in a man's way, which keep him back from "knowing the Lord." Now the work of the Spirit in his soul is to carry him on in spite of all these obstacles. Nature, and all the work of nature, and all the power of Satan working on nature, is to draw the man back; but the work of the Spirit on the soul is to lead him forward, to keep ali...