Dattes o#,c iílldren, 50 i bring arguments to obtain ir, but a child need not becaufe he is his father, and a fi_ranger if he lives upon 'another, though he hath a great'many reafons to think why the other fhould main - ?aine. him,yet he will be affraid left he fhould become burden - forne unto him, but now a child'dorh not think fo; Yea, if a child bath.provokt his father, and he is angry with him, yet a child will truft to his father for all that, he is my father, and he will truft and relye yet upon his fatherly love,and there's no fuch way to obtain any thing of his father as to raft himfelf ul - on his fatherly love.There s a great deal of difference, between the confidence of a ílranger and the confidence of a child, & of a great deal of difference between the confidence of one That is begotten again by the Spirit of God, the confidence of a child ,and a ftranger: I'le give you that Serif ture for the con- fidence of the children ofGod miffing upon their Father, and relying upon his grace and tnercyuotwithltanding their offen- ces ; In the 64 of Ifa: But we all are an unclean thin, and all aar righteoufireffesare as ftthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf,andour inn yuites like, the wind have taken us away,and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that firs up hirafelf to tape hold on thee; for thou haft hid thy face from us,and haft con fnrne:l no becaufe of our iniva.tres, then in the 8: V: But now O Lord, thou art our Father, for all this,though we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteoufnef es are as filthy rags, and we all do fade away as a leaf, and therer'i none that calleth upon thy name We are all wicked and vild, and thou hart even confir- med us, but now O Lord thou art our Father: This is that that anfwers all, thou art our Father, frill fhe relyes upon God as a Father : Othis Title of Father, it is a mighty rock . of faith, a mighty foundation of faith unto all the Saints that God is their Father; .0 truft then in him, relye upon him for fupply, for help, were it not a great dithorou. to any father that his chil- di en Mould go to all his nerighbr tars to beg bread ? and fay,my father will not give it me, and I fhall be fiarv'd for all my fa- ther, Isis would be accounted ,a great difhonour, Parents wos.:1 d have their children look to their duty,& let them alone for providing for them :So if thou call'ft God Father,, ler God alone for providing for thee, and rely upon him, as the lheatt of-
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