504 Duties of Children. pf a child loth relye upon the Parents for vvharfoever it flands in need of : And therefore if 1 ou ihoulti co:: into any g: eat fufferings, yet (fill exercise faith upon God is that promife for the helping of the faith or cr,zL: In the a Or: 6. laPr. I will be a Father to you, and ye (hall be my Sons and Daughters faith the Lord iìlmighty: Mark,it's an Exhorta- tion to come zut from falfworfhip,Comeoar from amongthem,& be ye feparate, faith the Lord,teuch no unclean thinn,And I will re- ceive you, & willbe a Father to you, andye (hall be my Sons and Daughters faith the Lord Almighty.If we reek to worfhip God a sa hather,and come out from all falfe woriip,then it may be we (hall fuller much, and men will oppofe and hate us, and we are like to meet with hard things in the world Wel, faith God though others fhould calf you out of all, though your very Parents should be againft you,yet I will be a Father to you,, and you (hall be my Sans and Daughters faith the Lord All- mighty ; I am the Lord Allmrghty, and able to do you good, able tobelp you and fupply all your wants,and therefore be not afraid, relye and trufl in me, for Iam your Father, faith the Lord Allmsghty. Again, If you be children, then delight in the prefence of your Father, make ufe of the fpirit of Adoption, come often before Your Father ; When you go to :payer, do nor go to prayer meerly as a duty, but go to prayer as children ufe to go vo their father : O God takes much delight in the fpirit of A- doption :I remember it's an expreßïon that Luther hash about it,, faith he, the word Father hath more elegancy before God, then Demofihenes or. Cicero had in all their elegant Orations, and it pierces the Heavens, and 611s the Heavens with the n wife of it : O make ufe of the fpirit of Adoption, O love to be. in the prefence of thy Father, though God thy Father may feem to be angry with thee, yet do not go out of his prefence,- a child if he hath a childith difpofition, and nor a hafe fordid difpofirion , he will not be calf out of the prefence of the Farher, you may read in the Sa . Tfa! : i I. Though it was a time when Sod was antIrry with David, yet.Lord daft me mot out ofthy prefence, as if fie fuotaïd fay, Let me be in thy preface
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