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Triviledges of
the Children of
God.
God,
but
they are ufurpers. But
there
might be
a
miftake
in
that
;
for though
it's true,
all
our
right
is
loft,,
that mutt
be
granted
;
But
yet if God
by
a
free
donation
!hall
give
then
right,
!hall give
the
creature
againe
to wicked
men
,
give
the
Earth
to
the children
of
men,
we cannot
fay that they
are ufur-
pers, if
they
have
it
by
a
free
gift.from
God,
in
the time of
his
bounty and
patience towards the
wicked
But
yet
Rill they
have not
that right
that
the
children of
God
have
,
their right
is meerely
by
donation, but the right
that
the
child of
Cod
bath,
it
is
partly
by
purchafe, and
partly
by
inheritance
;
they
have
a
challenging
right, that
they can
in
a
bold and holy way,
even
challenge from
God
all
good
thing's
from
all
creatures
that they
have
need
of,
as
their
owne.
A
wicked man
may have
many comfortable things
in
the
world for
his
prefent
fubfi-
fiance,
and
I
dare not
fay
that
he
is a
ufurper
if
he
get
them
lawfully
for
God
in
his
bounty and
patience doth
give wick-
ed
men
thefe
things
;
and
we
fay,
what freer then gift
?
I
but
there's
no
wicked
men in
the
world
that
can
challenge thefe,
and
fay,
Lord there
are mine owne,
it's
mine
inheritance,
it's
my
purchafe
;
this
is
the priviledge of the children
of
God.
If
a
malefactor by
his offence
bath forfeited,
his eftate,
bath
forfeited
all
the right that
he bath
to the
good things in
a
Kin
-
dom
:
But
yet if
thofe
that
have fupream power
condemne
him,
fha11
out of
their
bounty grant
unto him
Tome:
provií on
for
his Supper
the
night before
he
is
to
be exccuted,you
cannot
fay
that he doth
ufurpe
it,
he
hath
a
right to
it,
that is, it's gi-
ven him,
though
he
bath
forfeited
all
:
And
truly
this
is
the
.
right that
wicked men
have
:
Is there not
a
great deale of
dif-
ference
now
between
*e
right that
a
child
bath at his Fathers
Table,
and
the right that
a
malefa6or
bath
the night
before
he
goes
to the
Gallowes
?
This
now
is
the differencebetween
the
right of the one
and
the
other,
even before the
Lord
:
Therefore
when
you
look upon your
eftates,
and
lee
your
hou-
fes
furnifhed
with
good furniture,
and look upon your Tables
and fee
them furnifhed
with
full
difhes;
Confider
what right,
you have
to
all
thefe
in
reference
unto
God
;
whether
it
be
meerely the
right
of
donation
;,
As
a malefactor- may have.to;
pre.