John Gill on Knowledge of Christ
John Gill’s thoughts on what it means of have knowledge of the Son of God or faith in Christ:
…and of the knowledge of the Son of God; which is but another phrase for faith in Christ, for faith is a spiritual knowledge of Christ; it is that grace by which a soul beholds his glory and fulness, approves of him, trusts in him, and appropriates him to itself; and such an approbatory, fiducial, appropriating, practical, and experimental knowledge of Christ, is here intended; and which is imperfect in those that have it, and is not yet in many who will have it; and inasmuch as the Gospel ministry is the means of it, this will be continued until every elect soul partakes of it, and arrives to a greater perfection in it: for it follows…Faith, for Gill is not merely beliefs about Jesus, but beliefs about Jesus' trustworthiness and an intentional disposition toward him based about those beliefs.