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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 27
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We shall not insist long neither upon this, though the Scripture make it the treasury of all our consolation; only we may briefly consider, What it is 1to be our Father. And
- 1what it is for God to be our Father.
First, It implieth his spiritual begetting us by the Word. For before conversion the Devil is our Father, we may say, Our Father which art in Hell, if we were to pray to him; as our Saviour told the Pharisees, not Abraham, but the Devil was their Father, and all, because we have his likeness upon us, and his works we do. But when God by his Spirit doth change us, and make us to partake of his Divine Nature, then we are sons, Sons by Adoption, and sons by Regeneration. It is not then every one, that God is thus a Father to, he must have the Image of God, and his likeness. Therefore though many call him Father, yet he is a Judge, and an enemy to them, because they are contrary to him in nature and actions.
First, It implieth his spiritual begetting us by the Word. For before conversion the Devil is our Father, we may say, Our Father which art in Hell, if we were to pray to him; as our Saviour told the Pharisees, not Abraham, but the Devil was their Father, and all, because we have his likeness upon us, and his works we do. But when God by his Spirit doth change us, and make us to partake of his Divine Nature, then we are sons, Sonnes by Adoption, and sonnes by Regeneration. It is not then every one, that God is thus a Father to, he must have the Image of God, and his likeness. Therefore though many call him Father, yet he is a Judge, and an enemy to them, because they are contrary to him in nature and actions.