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…

Secondly, As God is thus a Father in respect of a metaphorical generation; so also in regard of all his paternal love and care to those that are his. No bowels of father or mother are comparable to his. Therefore the Prophet Isaiah makes his love to transcend the mothers love, and that to her sucking infant, Isa. 49. 50. Insomuch that all our doubts and fears may presently be subdued, if we consider he is a Father. Why art thou so disquieted, as if like Melchizedek thou were without father and mother? Thou art afraid of hell and condemnation, but will a Father do thus? Again, thou doubtest about many earthly and sensible comforts, what thou shalt eat or drink, and doth not our Saviour say, Matth. 6. 8. Your Father knoweth what ye have need of? Improve then the relation of a Father; think what care, love and bowels God hath put into thy heart who art a father to thy children; thou never doubtest of thy affections to them, but many times of their affections and dutifulness to thee; And is not this fatherly affection much more in God?

Secondly, As God is thus a Father in respect of a metaphorical generation; so also in regard of all his paternal love and care to those that are his. No bowels of father or mother are comparable to his. Therefore the Prophet Isaiah makes his love to transcend the mothers love, and that to her sucking infant, Isa. 49. 50. Insomuch that all our doubts and fears may presently be subdued, if we consider he is a Father. Why art thou so disquieted, as if like Melchizedech thou were without father and mother? Thou art afraid of hell and condemnation, but will a Father do thus? Again, thou doubtest about many earthly and sensible comforts, what thou shalt eat or drink, and doth not our Saviour say, Matth. 6. 8. Your Father knoweth what ye have need of? Improve then the relation of a Father; think what care, love and bowels God hath put into thy heart who art a father to thy children; thou never doubtest of thy affections to them, but many times of their affections and dutifulness to thee; And is not this fatherly affection much more in God?