Duties of
C;Ïiddren.
503
bring
arguments
to
&.fain
it,
but
a
child need not
b
.caufe
he
is
his
father,
and
a'fir-anger
if he
lives
upon'another,
though
he
hath
a
great-many reafons
to think why the
other
should
rrtain-
Caine
him,yet he will be
affraid
lea
he should
.become
burden-
I'm= unto him,-but now
a
child
-do:h
not
think
io;
-°
Yea,
if
child hath.provokt his
father, and he
is
angrywith him,
}yet
a
child
will
truft
tb
his
father
for
all
that,
he
is
my
father, and
he
will
truf
i and
relye
yet
upon
his
fatherly love,and
there's no
fuch
way
to
obtain
any
thing
of
his
father
as
to catt
himfelf
up-
on his
fatherly love.There's,a great deal
of difference
between
the confidence
of
a
firanger
and
the confidence
of
a
child,
&
of
a
great deal
of
difference between the confidence
of
one
That
is
begotten
again
by
the
Spirit
of
God, the
confidence
of
a
child ,and
a
ítranger
:1'1e
give
you
that
Scripture for
the
con-
fidence
of the children of
God
trufiing
upon
their Father,
and
relying upon
his
grace
and,Mercy no
withfiandingtheir
offen-
ces
;
In the
64
of
Ifa:
But
we
all
are
as an-unclean
,
thin,,
-nd
all
oar
righteoufneJfes
are
as
lathy rags,
and
we
all
do
fade as
a
leaf,andour
iniquites
like
the wind
have
taller
xu
away,and there
u
none
that
calleth
upon
thy
name,'
that
firs
up
hinrcfelf'to
take
hold
on
thee;
for
thou
haft
kid thy
face
from
u-s,and
haft canfunel
as becaufe
of
our
iniquities,
then
in
the
8. v:
But
now
O
Lord,
thou
art
our
Father,
for
all
this,though we
are
all
As
an
unclean
thing, and all our
rightepufnefíes
are
as
filthy rags, and
we all
do
fade
away
as-
aleaf,
and
there''.4 none
that calleth
upon
thy,
name
We
are
all
wicked and
vild,
and
thou
haft
even
confir-
med us,
but
now
O Lord thou art
our
Father:
This
is
that that
anfwers
all, thou
art
Our
Father,
fiill fhe relyes
upon
God
as a
Father
:
Othis
Title of Father,
it
is
a
mighty rock
of faith,
a
mighty
foundation
of
faith unto
all
the
Saints
that
God
is
their
Father;
-0
trull then
in
him,
relye
upon him for fupply, for
help,
were
it
not
a
great
dt!19rou. to
any
father
that
his
chit-
diren_thould-go
to
all his neighb:-
tars
to beg
bread
?
and
fay
my
father will"-not
give
it
me,
and
I (hall be fiarv'd
for
all my
fa-
ther,
this
would
be
accounted
,a
great
dithonour
,
Parents
wold
have
their children
look
to
their
duty,& let them
alone
fo:providing
for
them :Soif
thou
call'ft
God Fathers
ter
God
aline
for
providing for
thee,
and
rely
upon
him,
as
the
!heart
of