Direaions for getting and keeping times greater thenyour dearer friends; or your own husbands. Objec`l. O but yet he will not fave the Gracelefs ? A ifzr. True but he is the more ready to give Grace, that youmay be faved. If anyofyotr (mark, anyofyou) do lack. wifdom, let him a k it of God, whogiveth to all men liberally (without defert) and upbraideth not (with our unworthinefs or former faults) and it fall be given him. Jam. 1.4. Ifyou that are evil cangivegoodgifts to your children, how much more ¡hall your heavenly Father give his holy Spirit to them that &kit, Luke 1 i. 13 . Suppofe your life were in the hands of your ownhusband, or your childrens life in yourhands, would it not exceeding- ly comfort you or them, to confider, whole hands they are in ? though yet you hadno further Affil rance how you Ihouldbe ufed?It may beyou will fay, But God is no Father to the Gracelefs ? I anfwer; He is not their Father in fo teer and Iiric a fenfe as he is the Father of Believers . but yet a Father he is even to"the wicked ., and to convince men ofhis Fa- therly Mercy to them, he 6ften fo flileth himfelf. He faith by Mofes, Deut. 32. 6. to a wicked gene- ration, whole fpot was not the fpot of his children,. .Dye this requite the Lord, O foolifh people andun- wife ? Is not he thy Father that bought thee ? hath he not made theeand eßablifhed thee ? And the Prodigal could call himFather for his encouragement beforehe returned to him, Luke i 5. 16,17,18. For my own part, I muff needs profefs, that my foul bath more frequent fupport from the confideration of Gods Gracious andMerciful nature ; then from the Pro- wifeit felf -. za Further-
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