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V
E
R. I.
Ephefiana,
Chap.
S.
177
Pfe
I:
r
Z.
e
tray
,.
.
Dem.
t
as a
child with
his
Father.
Let God
goe before thee
in
his
coutifell and
will to
dire& and leadc
thee
as a
father,and
doe
thou
fubmit
thy felt
as
a
childe to
his
father,hutnbly
to
follow
and
obey him
in
alibis
waves
:
Fór
a childe
as
he is
a
child
is
humble, and
gives his
father
all duere-
verence and fubjeCtion,elfe he denies
the
nature
ofaichilde.
3.
With
naturali
affe
&ion and propenfion ,
not
as
fervants and
flavesby compulfion,
to
imitate
God,
and fo to feeke
to
pleafe
God,
but
as
children naturally
affeól
both to
imitate
and
by imitation
to
pleafe
their parents.For as
a
father naturallycommunicates
life
and be-
ing
to
his
child,and by
naturali propenfion and
affection
doth
his
child
all
the good
he
can, and not
by
any
compulfion or
feare
:
So he by
ge-
neration communicatesthe
like
nature
to
his
child to imitate and ferve
him
and pleafe
him cheerefully and.gladly
:
fo
is
it
betweene God
our
Father
and his
children,they performe
al duties
of
love,worfhip,fervice
and
obedience to
God
in
freechildlike
affe
&ion
andpropenion
to God
as
to
a
father, not
as
to
a
creator,
a
King
or
Judge
of
the world.
This therefore doth prove to
matey
that they
are
not the
children of
God; for
like
the Jewes,
lob.
6.48.
we
will fay, we are
the
children
of
God,
becaufe we are
baptized,and
fuch
with whom
God
outward-
ly at
kafl
hath
ftricken
covenant to be our
God; but what
faid
Chrifl
to theme
Ye
are
not Gods children,
ye
are the
devils
:
How doth
he
prove
ice Ye
doe
the
workes
of
the devil!,
you follow
not God,
nor doe
not theworkes
of
God.
So many
that
live
in
covetoufneffe,
in
fnfuli
flefhly pleafures,
in
negkéling
the
Word
of
God,
they
are
not
the
children
of
God,
for thefe
are
not the
workes
of
God.
Again,
it
letterh
us
fee
how
we
may
gather
our
felves
to be
his
cbii-
dren,
if
we doe walke
in
the wayes
of
God
and
follow him;thofe that,
follow
him
are his
children, thofe that are children mull follow biro.
If
we tell
a
good
childe,
his
father
and
mother
would
not
sloe thus
:,
or
your father
will
doe thus and thus,
the
one
will
hold
him
hacke,'
the other
will move
him to doe accordingly. Indeede there
are many
outwardly children, that
doe
otherwife,
of
whom God
may
fay
as
he fpeaketh,I
bawsbraught
up
children and
they
have
rebelled
agaisff
me;
but beloved children
will
doe
as
we have
fpoken.
Again,hereby
we may
judge what
is
true holineffe
&
godlinesit
is
a
child-likerefemblance&imitatió
of
God
as a
father.lt
is
nothing what
love,feare,fervice
and obedience
weperforme toGod,and
whatgraces
we have,but
in
what
natureand
kind and
relative imitation
of God
as
a.
Father,
we doe
them.
We
muff
Tooke
to
God
as a
father,
and
as
chil-
dren frame our
felves
to
pleafe, honour, and imitate,him
as
a
father;
not
as
flatterers
and
time
ferving,
hypocrites
that
pleale
God
fora
time
for
their owne
advantage, and
to
fervetheir owne turnes
and
bellies
as
they
doe men
:
They
flattered
himwith their
lippes;
then
They
would
be holy
and like
God,when they
were
in
diflreffe, then they will bee
Saints
and none
lo
godly
and
holy
as
they, but
all was
but
flattery for
their owne advantage, no child
-like
heart
in
them naturally
affeéling
to
be
like
unto,God
as
children,
a
father
in
holineffe.
oh
that
there were
is
them