Tebe aceaunted a child of Goda gréas 6lef . 507 Doa: 7 bat it is agreat biding not only to be Gods childrena but to walk, fo as to convince all with whom we live, that we are the children of God, fo as in their confciences they fhall own us to 6e Gods children, they fGall callus fo. It was a great part of the glory ofChrifl himfelfe, not only to be the Son of God, but to declared ro be the Son of God: Rom: 1. 4. And'declared to be the Son of Clod with pouer,accordfng to the fpirit of holincfs, by the reiurreetiov from the dead. He was the Son of God, that was glory, and he was declared to be the Son of God, that was a fpecial part of his glory likewife, and fo it is a great addition of glory to be one that shall be called the Son of God, Chríft did lay much upon that, that the world might know that God had feat him, often he fpeaks of that : Why wash not enough O bleffed Saviour that thou thy felt didít know that the Father fent thee, and the Father kn .w he lent thee ? No, he would have the world toknow that the Father had lent him : and it is tiìat that the Saints fhould prize as a great blefling of God,that even the world should know the relation that they have to God, That they are the children of God: 3hey íhall be called fe,for by walking fo as that men luau be forted to acknowledg them to be Gods children. Hereby Firí +, There comes a great deale of dory to themfelves, they are honoured in the very confciences of mLn Yea Secondly, Hereby their Father is glorified when their lives fhall hold forth whole they are. Yea by thistheir profeflion is glorified :-- and-the mouths of wicked men are ftopt by this means; Mens consciences are convinced ; There's much good done by this : Such as have not only grace, but manifcf+ it to the convrck on of others,chey are of great ufe in the places where they live : Nay you shall have the wickedefl -and vital- fay, were they all but like shore,. then I could have good thoughts of them, then we could nor tell what to fay againi+ them; O they would be ready to hear= ken to any thing that's faid, when as there is a conversation fo as is convincing before them : It will be a meanes to reflraine their thallice againft others when they fee that forne at leaf+ walk fo as mania nothing but the Image ofGod;' () T t c z 'cis
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