506 Duties of Children. child, that every time he be to kt upón, men may be put in mind of God, .I have heard our of the word what a holy God God is Ana God and Je.us Ch: ill was of a meek and quiet fpirit; .I have heard :Ruch of God in his word, and every time I lee the Holy carriage of fuch a one I am put in mind of God, for certainly they are led by the Spirit of God, that's the evi- dence of a child in:the 8 :Rom: If we be led by the Spirit of we are the forts of God: And among other rhings,tn the point of peaceableneife be like your Father there If you would have eNidence that you are begotten from above, I fay, Phew forth the gracious Spirit of God in you, in the loving of peace, that to you may not only be the children of God and have comfort to your own foules that you are the children of God, but that you may be called the children of God And that's the next point, that this is a great bleffing, not only to be. the children of God, but to be called the children of God, and this is the duty of all fuch -as are the children of God, to walk fo before men, as they may be called Gods children, that the thoughts of men may be convinc't of them fo as to fay, verily thefe are the children of the living God. gly,And let the children of God walk one towards another, as children of the fame Father:Though it's true the children of vild perfons that have no education at all, but are rude, they 'will be fighting one with another, and their Parents perhaps look on,becaufe they are rude &.have no breeding :But if men of any rank and quality in the world rhat have breeding them - felves, and bellow breeding upon their children, fhould fee them wrangle and fight one with another before`cheir face: O how grievous would it be to them !' Ít' is enough that the chil- dren of the world wrangle one with another, and tight, ler nor thofe that profeffe God to be their Father, O let them not in the prefence of their Father wrangle and fight one With ano- ther, for certainly the Spirit of God cannot bare it:But we par's to that remains. They fhall be called the chr'/den of G94. They fhall not only be fo, but be accounted fo in thë World lbefore men : -- That's then the point. Doa:
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