Dttties, of 'children. drink, there,are very -feW of yoA that ate put to more ttraights f r outward things then Chrtfltvas, & yet do not you think that God the Father lov'd his Sin ?and will not then that love ferve thy turn that Jefas Chrift the Son of God had ? though thou beéfta fon,yet thou art not dearer toGod then Jefas Chrift the fon of God was to the Father.O then reife up thy Spirits in the want of altoutwerd comforts in this world, . for thou art a Son, and haft an inheritance to come hereafter. Secondly, And then let there be reverence. If I be n fa- Matth. i. G. truer where is mine honour, faith God, and if you call on the father who without refpeîl- of perfons iudgeth every man eceerdin, to his works, paf e the tame of your foiorsrnin,g here on ferre : Itt s true, t Pet: I. 17. We are children, and fo delivered from the bondage of die law, but yet we muff have the reverence of the Father,walking before our Father with a faliall reverence. Thirdly, If God be a Father,then let there be love to him, do all you do out of love, be not mercenary, a fervant loth not care to do any thing any further then he may be paid for ir, but a child cloth not fo, he cloth what he do.h out of love, O that we could bring all our obedience,to be out of love to God fo that we need not (land to argue thus, muff we of nece lity do this or go to hell ? Shall no man be faved unleffe he do fò {tricîly ? This is a befe fpirit to argue thus No, this is enough' to a child, this would pleafe your Krher : Let any Minifter -of God but open any point, and Phew one that hash a child-like difpoftion and tell him that it 4vill but pleafe God, and make but that out to him that it will be but 1leafing to God , O a child will feek the acceptable and plea, ng will of God, he doth not his duty meerly for wages. Now aloft people do their fervice meerely for wages ; odhetwife what s the rea- fon, why in the time of your greate!t profperity you are not as ferviceable to God as in the time when you lye upon your fick- bed and death -bed ? Why do men upon their fick and death beds cry, O that I might but live,then I would ferve God bet- ter, I would not live in fin as heretofore I have done ; Why ? becaufe `then they are afraid they fhould go to hell, but now if it were out of love, when I have the greateft profperity of all, this fhall gaine my heart fo much the more : O then you will
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