Triviledges of the Children of Ged. 495 preferve him to the execution ; or whether it be the right of children. But nowif you be the children of God,youu come to Your Tables, as to your Fathers Table , it's the provifion that your Father Both make for you, and fo you may look upon it. And this is the priviledge of the children of God : O what a bletfed thing is it to be. a child of God then. And- then the rft priviledge of a child of God is this ; He bath free accelfe to his Fathers pretence ; he may come at any time into his Fathers prefence , and fo long as he is owned to be a child ,- he may comae with Comfort . into his Fathers pretence. God ha_h no children that he ferves as 'David ier- ved Ab felem , Let him net fee my face ; iie acknowledged him to be his child,and yet he would not have him to fee his face ; No, but God loves to have his children be in his pretence ; and it is a part of the purchafe of Jeftis Chrift that we tî-orald' come inro the pretence of God by him. We have accef: by efus Chril}, and we may aiwaye`s-come and Hand before our ather, which is a great priviledge that thole which are the children of God account of. Sixthly, By being the children of God they come to have the Image ofGod renewed in them ; A F,acher communicates fomewhat of his nature to his child, but a Father cannot com- municate all the good that he pleafes to his child ; a Father that bath wifdome , cannot communicate his wifdome to his -child; a Father that hath holineffe, cannot communicate his holitieífe to his child. But now God, he communicates what he pleafes to his children ; Communicates of his Image to them, communicates chat wherein his very Glory dorh confft. The Reafon why a Father cannot communicate wiidome and holinetfe to his child, it is becaufe he begets the child as a man, but not as aman faqualified : But nowwhen God be- gets a child, if he begets a child to himfelf, he mull beget him like unto himfelfe tome way or other. Now cd himfelfe is holy, and in, nitely wife ; lt- is not accidentali to God to be holy and wile, and to be vovd and free of all kind affirm Therefore all that are the children of Cod , they having on= Cods Image, are like to God, in that which is the excellency
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