Answer. I know not what may be understood by
knowing of the love of God; though it be carried on by spiritual sense and
experience, yet it is received purely by believing. Our knowing of it, is
our believing of it as revealed. “We have known and believed the love that
God hath to us. God is love,” 1 John iv.
16. This is the assurance which, at the very entrance of
walking with God, thou mayest have of this love. He who is truth hath said
it; and whatever thy heart says, or Satan says, unless thou wilt take it up
on this account, thou doest thy endeavour to make him a liar who hath
spoken it, 1 John v. 10.