378 The Life of Faith. the one title ofhis children. And at once with theft Relations of man to God, it is that God is as before related to man, as his Creator, and as his Owner, Ruler, and ChiefGood. a5. Man is alto related to his fellow creatures, below bins, a. As their Owner, z. Their Ruler, 3. Their End, under God : which is Gods Dominative or Honorary Image upan man, and is calledcommonly our Dominion over the creatures : So that by sneer Creation, and the Nature of the creatures there is confiituted a flate of communion between God and Man, which is a . A Dominion, 2. A Kingdom, 3. A Family or Pa- ternity. And the whole is fometime called by one of chefs names, and fometimeby the other, (1i11 implying the refl. i6. Gods Kingdom being thus conflituted, his Attributes appropriate to theft his Relations follow : r. His Abfo/ute- nefl as our Owner : 2. His Holinrfs, Truth and _office as our Ruler : 3. And his Kindnefs, Benignity. and Mercy as our Father or Benefactor. 17. And then theWork; of God as in thcfe three Relations follow; whichare a. To Difliofe of us at his pleafure as our Owner : z. Togovern us as our King : 3. To love uc, and do us good, and make us petfccly happy as our Benefactor and our end. 18. And here more particularly is tobe confidcred, a. How God difpofcd ofAdam when he had n:wmade him 2. How he began his Government of him And 3. What Bene- fits he gave him, and what he further offered or promifed hint, ag. And as tothe fecond, we mull a, Confider the Ante. cedentpart of Gods Government, which is Legifarion and then (hereafter) the cenfeejuent part ; which is r. bag/vent: 2. Execution. And Gods Legiflation is I. By making our Natures loch as compared with objects, Duty (hall refult from this Nature fo related: 2. Or clfc by Precept or Revelation from himfell, betides our Natures. a. The Lawof Nature is 4'undamentaf and radical in our forefaid Relations to God themfelves, in which it is made our natural duty, a. To fub- anit our fetus wholly to God, and his difpofal, as his own : sr Toobey his commands : 3. And to receive his =rciesil and thankfoilly to tcturn thorn end to lovçhhr But though (Is
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