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Priviledges of the Children of
God.
491
inheritance
of
children
to
have
the
Gofpel clearly.revealed to
them,
and
to
have
the
blelfïúg and
the priviledges
of
the
Gofpel
;
but
that
we
f7ball
fpeak
to
more
by and
by. Thus
you
have
the myflery of Godlinefs
in
our
Adoption.
And the benefit of children
,
or
the priviledges
that we
have
by
being children are very great
and
many.
I
remem-
ber
Luther
in
his
Comment
upon this
4.
of the Gal.
7.
verfe,
faith
he,
If
we
did but
know
what this priviledge
were,
all
the
riches of
all
the
Kingdoms
in
the
world would
be
but
as
filthy
dung
to
us
,
that's
his
exprellion
;
and
the greater the pomp
and
the
glory of the
world
is,
the
more would we
have
it
whaxfoever
it
be,
if
we know
but the
excellency
of
this
pre-
rogative
of
being children
there
are
great priviledges
in
it,
In
the
t
of
John
a
a.
To as many
as
received Wm,
to
them
gave
he
tower
to
become
the
Sons
of
God
;
to
them
gave he
power,
he
gave
an
Authodrative
power
to
become
the
Sons
of
God ,
that
they
may
claim
it
and
ch?lienge
it
;
they have
a
kind of
authority
and
priviledge
in becoming
the
Sonnes of
God.
Now the
firf1
priviledge
of
a
child
of God
is
this
,
great
priviledges
honor is
put
upon him, according
to
the
ity of the Fathet,
Boni,
fo is
the
honor and
dignity
of
the
ch
if
the father
is a
Yeoman,
fo
is
the
child looked.
if the Father
is
a
Gen-
tleman,
fo
the child
,
or
a
Duke,
or
a
Prince,
or Monarch,the
child
bath honor according
to the
honor
of
his
Father. Now
to be
a
child
of
God
muff
needs be honorable, the
children
of
great
men of the earth are
honorable, but the children
of
the
inFiniteGod
mull
needs
have honor above
them'by
their birth-
right;
the reflection of the
honor of
their Father it
is
upon
them
,
it's
a
fpeech
of
David
in
the
i
Sam.
i
8.
z
z.
`.
ome
came
and
communed with him aboutmarrying
of
Sauls
Daughter,
what
faith
David?
Seemeth
it
to you
a light thing
to
be
a
'Cirrus
fun
in
Law
, feeing
that
I
am
a
poor
man
and
lightly
efieemeì?
Now this Saul
was a
wicked man
,
and
it
was
to
be but his
Son
in
Law,
and
if that
were accounted
fo
great
an honor and
priviledge, much more this.
Secondly,
The
fecond
priviledge of the children
of
God
Krr
z
it