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…

First, Appropriation and application. It is not enough to acknowledge God a Father, but we must bring this relation home to our hearts, Our Father, my Father, and thy Father.

Secondly, It implieth, That God is so the Father of one believer, that he is the Father of all the rest. Earthly parents have sometimes so many children, that they cannot provide for all (at least) so liberally, but God can do as much for any one child of his, as if he had no more; his riches and inheritance is given to every one, All his children are heirs, and have as much as if there had been but one child.

Thirdly, There is implied the unity and agreement of all believers amongst themselves. They have one Father. why then should there be such divisions amongst them? The Apostle Ephes. 4. 6. urgeth this one God, and Father of all, one Lord, one Spirit, one God and Father. These are brought as arguments of unity, not merely because they are one, but one •o believers. All believers have but one Lord, one Spirit, one God, and therefore are to manifest this unity.

Thirdly, There is implied the unity and agreement of all believers amongstthemselves. They have one Father. why then should there be such divisions amongst them? The Apostle Ephes. 4. 6. urgeth this one God, and Father of all, one Lord, one Spirit, one God and Father. These are brought as arguments of unity, not meerly because they are one, but one •o believers. All believers have but one Lord, one Spirit, one God, and therefore are to manifest this unity.