6. He is therefore happy in God, yea always happy, as having in him _a well of water springing up into everlasting life, and overflowing his soul with peace and joy. Perfect love_ having now _cast out fear_, he _rejoices evermore_. He _rejoices in the_ Lord _always_, even _in_ God _his Saviour_: and in the Father, _through our_ Lord Jesus Christ, _by whom he hath now received the atonement. Having_ found _redemption thro’ his blood, the forgiveness of his sins_, he cannot but rejoice, whenever he looks back on the horrible pit out of which he is delivered, when he sees _all his transgressions blotted out as a cloud, and his iniquities as a thick cloud_. He cannot but rejoice, whenever he looks on the state wherein he now is, _being justified freely, and having peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ_. For _he that believeth hath the witness_ of this _in himself_: being now _the Son of God by faith: because he is a son, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into his heart, crying, Abba Father!_ And _the Spirit itself beareth witness with his Spirit, that he is a child of God_. He rejoiceth also, whenever he looks forward, _in hope of the glory that shall be revealed_: yea, this his joy is full, and all his bones cry out, _Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten_ me _again to a living hope――of an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for_ me. 7. And he who hath this _hope_, thus _full of immortality, in every thing giveth thanks_: as ♦knowing that _this_ (whatsoever it is) _is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning him_. From him therefore he _chearfully_ receives all, saying, _Good is the will of the Lord_: and whether the Lord giveth or taketh away, equally _blessing the name of the Lord_. For he hath _learned in whatsoever state he is, therewith to be content_. He knoweth _both how to be abased; and how to abound. Every where and in all things he is instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and suffer need._ Whether in ease or pain, whether in sickness or health, whether in life or death, he giveth thanks from the ground of the heart to him, who orders it for good: knowing that as _every good gift cometh from above_, so none but good can come _from the Father of lights_, into whose hand he has wholly committed his body and soul, as into the hands of a faithful Creator. He is therefore _careful_ (anxiously or uneasily) _for nothing_: as having _cast all his care on him that careth for him_, and _in all things_ resting on him, after _making his request known to him with thanksgiving_. ♦ “know-that” replaced with “knowing that”