Dzaties
of
Children.
5o;
pretence, though
it
be thy frowning countenance
:
O
prize
duty
as
thy
priviledge,tn
be often
in
prayer
to
thy
Father,
you
that pray
meetly
as
a
task,and do
not
know
what the meaning
of the fpiric
ofAdoption
is, do not
know what
it
is
for your
hearts
to
fpring within
you
when
you
go
to God
in
prayer
;
Surely
there's
a
great
deal of
caufe
that
you
should fear
that
youare not
yet
among
the
number of
children.
Seventhly, And
then
if
you
be Gods children,b,
zealous for
him,
A child would be zealous for
the
honour
of
his
father,
yea
a
child would
tight
for
his
father though
his
father be
an-
gry
with
him,
a
fervant willnot
do
fo
for his
mallet.:
I
remem-
tet
C
rs
fats
his fon
upon
a
time
Peeing
his
father
in
danger, the
ttory
faith he
was
borne dumb, but when
he
f
iv
a
Souldier rea-
dy to
kill his
father,
prefencly
die natural
affe6tion
that he
had
did break the
bars
of
his
ipeech,and made
him
cry our,O
f
pare
Crafxc,
he
never
fpake
word
before, yet
when he came
to fee
his
father
in
danger, thät
brake open
his
lips,
and
made
him
cry,
O sill
not
Cri
fees
;
Sa
it
should be with you, though
you
never
fpake
word
in all your
ltves,yet
when
you
fee your
father
dillionoured,
ô
cry
out,0
fpare
the
hotáour
of
God,do
nothing
againft
the
honour of
God,
you
that
are of
the
meeiceít,quiet_el.t
fpirìts, that
you
can
purl:
any
thing concerning your (elves,
yet when
you
fee
your
faner
ftruckt at, that should
make your
I
irks
boyh
within you,
if
you
were children
you
would
do
fb.
Eightly, And
you
would,
imitate
your
Father
;
Be ye holy
at
your
IIeavenly
Father
is hóly,
-
and,
fhe,v
forth
the
Image
of
your Father
;
It's
the
honour
of
a
child to
be like
his
father;
A
father loves
his
child
fo
much
the
more
I
remember
it
was Paid
of
7hesdotious
fon,
that
good
Emperour,
he
would
neverdye
fo
long
as
his
fon
lived,and we
fey
of fome,th
it
fuch
a
man will
never
be dead
to
long
as
this.
child
is
alive, thus
it
should
be with
all
the children
of
God;
'7
iey
fhould labour
to
hold
forth
the vertues
of
hi,n
that
bath
called
them
out
of
derinnefr
into
his
marvailous
light
(i
Pet:
2.
9.)
They íhould
to walk;
as
every one
thát
converfes
with them they fhould
put them
in
mind of
God
:
There
fiioúld be the
Image
of
God
in
the
T
t
t
child,
ïi