Consider who Jesus was, and whether the constitution of His Person does not entitle Him to confidence. Consider what He did, and whether this also must not be good ground for trust. Then cry to Him, and see if He does not hear you. When Usher wished to know whether Rutherford was indeed as holy a man as he was said to be, he went to his house as a beggar, and gained a lodging, and heard the man of God pouring out his heart before the Lord in the night. If you would know Jesus, get as near to Him as you can by studying His character, and appealing to His love.
Experience brings to faith strong confirmation.
I am not perplexed with doubt, because the truth which I believe has wrought a miracle on me. I am like the good man and his wife who had kept a lighthouse for years. I am sure I should be afraid to trust myself in a slender tower in the midst of the great billows. The woman remarked that the idea never occurred to her now. As to anxiety about the safety of the lighthouse, or his own personal security in it, he had outlived all that.