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Drvtit's,
of
children,
drink,
there
are
very
fe.w
of
you
that are put
t®
more ftraighrs
for
`ouLwward
rh
nas then
Chrüt
wvas,
&
yet
do not
you
think that
God the
Father lov'd
his Sen
?arid
will not -then that love
ferve
thy
turn
that
Jefus
Chrifl
the Son
of
God
had
?
though thou
beefaa
fon,yet thou art
not dearer
toGod
then Jefas
Chriü
the
fón
of
God
was
to the
Father.0
then reile up thy Spirits
in
the
wvantof
all.outward comforts in this
world,
.for
thou
art
a
Son,,
and haft an
inheritance
to come hereafter.
Secondly,
And
then
let
there
be
reverence.
If
A
be
a
fa-
Matth.
s.
-
ther where
is
mine hononr,
faith
God,
and
if
yon
colt
04
the
father
who-without
refpefl
of
perfons
jrsdgeth every
man
accordinT
to
his
Worke,
paf
fe the time ofyour
forotzrning
here in
feare
:
It
true,
F
Pet:
17.
wveare
children, and
fo
delivered
from
the
bondage
ofthe
law,
but
yet
We
mutt
have
the reverence of the Father,walking
before
our
Father.with
a
filial' reverence.
Thirdly,
If
God
be
a
Father,then
let there
be love
to him,
do all
you
do out of love,
be
not mercenary,
a
fervent
Both
not
care to do
any
thing
any
further then
he
may
be paid
for
it,
but
a
child doth not fo, he
doth
what he
doh
out
of love,
O
that we
could bring
all
our
obedience,to
be out of love
to
God'
fo
that we
need not
Eland
to
argue thus,
mull
we
of
necefity
do
this or go
to hell
?
Shall
no man
be
faxed unleffe
he
do
ío
flri
&ly
?
This
is
a
bare
fpirit to
argue thus
No,
this
is
enough'
to
a
child, this
would
pleat
your
Father
:
Let
any
Mini(terof
God but open
any
point;
and
Phew
one that
hath
a
child-like
difpofition and
tell
him
that
it
will
burr
pleafe
God,
and make
but
that out
to
him
that it
will
be but
pleating
to
God
,
O
a
child
will
feek
the
acceptable
and
plea'
,ng
will
of
God,
he
doth
nor his
duty meetly for
wages.
Now
mofI
people do
their fervice
meerely for
wages
;
o°herwife what
s
the rea
--
fon,
why in
the time
of your
greatetl
profperity
you
are nor
as
ferviceable
to God
as
in
the time
when
you
lye
upon your
fick--
bçd
and
death
-bed
?
Why
do men
upon
their
fick
and
death
beds
cry,
0
that
I
might but live,then
I
would ferve
God
sset-
ter,
I
would
not
live
in
fin
as
heretofore
I
have
done
;
Why
?'
becaufe'then
they are
afraid
they
f
ould go
to
hell,
but
now
ifit
were
out of love, when
I
have
the greatetlprofperity
of
all, this
(hall gaine my
heart
fo
much
the
more
;
O
then. you
will