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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 5: Quest. How is Gospel-Grace the best Motive to Holiness? SERMON V.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Owning him as our Father: 1By whose Spirit we are born again through his Word; and as Jacob would have his Name named on the Children of Joseph, 2thereby owning and respecting of them as if they were his own Children; so does Christ look upon all Believers as his Children, and condescends to have his Name named on them; nay, he names them his Children, when he says, Here am I, 3and the Children which thou hast given me.
1. Owning him as our Father: 1By whose Spirit we are born again thrô his Word; and as Jacob would have his Name named on the Children of Joseph, 2thereby owning and respecting of them as if they were his own Children; so does Christ look upon all Believers as his Children, and condescends to have his Name named on them; nay, he names them his Children, when he says, Here am I, 3and the Children which thou hast given me.