Priviledgesof the Children of God. 493 `Thirdly," The third priviledge , The intire fatherly love that they are irlbraced with all ; God who is the Infinite glo- rious firitbeing, imbraces them with an intire fatherly love. All the love._that ever was in any parents towards children, is but as One drö'p, of the in'inite ocean of fatherly love that there is in God unto his people : You that are fathers or mù- thers,you know what the love of a Parent to.childrën: means,. Now when you find that natural affection of love tochildren, you thould help your Faith by this if you be godly And is it fo that I that am a parent have filch affeaións and love towards my children, that cane from my body ? O the aife&tiona then and love of God a Father to his children. Why is it that God hath taken upon him this title of a Father, but to the end that it might be a ground of the Faith of his peo2le,. to look up unto him , and to fee his love , as intire as ever the love of parent, the love of all parents in the wo id put toge- ther is towards children ; but all the natural'atpeelions of all that moil loving tender hearted parents that ever were in the worldinto one parent, you will fay that Father furelyis a lov- ing Father, that bath all the love that all that'Fathers had in . the world, fine the beginning he hath it á.l in his heart ;, yet , I fay of this Father , he were a hard -heard carnal Father in comparifon of God, of the love of God that is a Father unto his Saints : That's the third priviledge. Fourthly, The fourth priviledge of the children of God, it is the right that they have unto the creatures , that is reflored unto them by being children : Why the Jews they were de- priv'd of a great part of the comfort of the creature ; but now the children of God have their right refiored, renewed, ftrengthened, increafed, their right to all comforts in all crea- tures, It's true, Adam he had a right unto the creature at- firft, and by f n he loft it, fo that all mankind have loft their right unto the creatures. -- You will fay, What are wicked men ufurpers then, when they màk»ufe of the- creature ? have they no right ? I confeffe this fometimes hath been taught, That though they hive a tight befo. e. men, yet they have no right before, God ,
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