Triviledges' of the Children of God. Tenthly , That'.s one thing that paffed from me in his.pri- -viledges. The priviledge of a_child ofGod is, his compailions- towards him as a Father ;God döth compaffi.nate him both in his fins and alflidions.In the ï ©3 Pfal :Asa Father patties hay cñ:lct, fo the Lord patties them that feare him. And that known place in the third of Mal. A4 they fhall be mine, faith t$ae Lord of Hefts, in the day when 1 make *splay Jesvells,I wt. ll]are tliezn as a man fja arcs his onely Sonthat ferveth him.If you have a Ser- van: that difpleafes you, you can turne him out of dóores; But you will not fo prefently turne a child our of dootes, or at leaf} you will not be fo ready to, dif - inherit hiela ; Nay, a man that bath a Fathers arfeóIions, will never dif iiaherit his child, if he rename to him, whatfoever his fault be. Nbw this is the (late of Gods children; if they were in any other relation indeed to God, they might be cafe off ; as now , a wife may be cif off from her husband, fo as fie never be entertain'd againe, though fhe should be never fo forro.vfull,ifthe commit adul- tery or uncleannelfe. fer: 3. s . They fay, if ei man pat away his wife, and fhc roe from him, and become another mans, (hall he return. e unto her againe ? fhall not that Land be greatly polluted ? She can never return. to him again. but it.s not fo with a child, a child cannever be in fuch a difpofition that shall b -- made uncapable of his Fathers love : There's no relation elfe. whatfoever but there may be fuch a change of it, as that they may wholy ioofe the benefit of that Relation ; but a child can }never while he lives ; though he be a difobedient child, yet he cannotloofe altogether the benefit of that Relation of à child ; for notwithflanding his difobedience, yet upon his coming. in. to his Father,: though he be never filch a prodigal' fon, foul?: kind of Fatherly affect }ion ovill work ; There's no kind of Fa- ther in the world that hath but Nature in him, but though the child hath been never fo difobedienr, yet if he were litre that the :hart of the child were now changed, jais boivell.s would yea ne towards hint; this is the Relation of a child, I fay it can n3-ver be wholy loll , but-there will reenaine a capacity -of receiving fume Fatherly love. A férvant maybe call out from ier.vice,fo.as there can be no capacity of receiving him again and
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