Thus my dear Brother, you may have some days of evil, from family troubles, losses, crosses, and cares. You may have no small opposition from men of corrupt minds, that lay in wait to deceive. Hence the Apostle recommends a clear experimental knowledge of the truth—Christ the essential truth, and the word of God as the revealed truth. A few head notions though very clear, are not able to withstand the artifices of hell, for if a man is argued into a set of notions, he is liable to be argued out of them. When a man of ability, reason, sense, and a vast string of arguments, against the previous truths of the gospel, attacks such as have no grace in the heart, they are soon moved from the truth; but when those are attacked that have felt the precious truths of the gospel in the heart, though the poor believer is not able to answer him one question out of an hundred, he can prove the reality of those truths he holds, because they have done so much for him. The truth has brought him from darkness to light, from sin to holiness, from the service of the devil to the Service of God. Thus He can prove the reality of Bible truth, by his own present experience; and thus he is able to stand in the evil day, the day of rebuke and blasphemy. I can prove the Divinity of God my Saviour; by the answers he has given me to prayer, by the words he has sent to my heart, with power, and by the virtue of his sacrifice, which has lifted up my mind, so as no human power or object could have done, I can likewise prove the Doctrine of the Trinity, by the operation of the Father’s love, the manifestation of the Atonement of the Son, and by the regenerating influences of the Spirit. So we can experimentally prove the truth of every doctrine and divine ordinance. But then, when all my former experience is hid from me; what am I to do, when attacked by my foes in this evil day, and I am as a dumb man, in whose mouth are no reproofs? How shall I act? methinks you are ready to say. To which I must reply, that there is a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; but if shut up in heart and lip, then stand still, and hence the watch word, _Stand_! _stand_! _shall they cry_, _but none shall look back—still abide by the stuff_, _if you are not able to go out to battle_, _you shall share alike with those that do_. _Having done all to stand_, _stand in the evil day_. Still go on hearing, praying, reading, hoping, and waiting, and whatever errors are thrown into your mind, and have brought it into bondage, you may depend upon it the Lord will deliver you from them; and here you will see sovereign grace, yourself delivered, and the wise and prudent given up to believe a lie. This made the redeemer glad; he rejoiced in spirit and said, _I thank thee_, _Father_, _Lord of heaven and earth_, _that thou hast_ HID _these things from the wise and prudent_, _and hast revealed them unto babes—even so Father_, _for so it