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…

Thirdly, This is greatly for our comfort, Because though there be some distance and inequality, yet we may upon the same general grounds plead the bowels of a Father, and all the effects of fatherly love, as Christ himself may. Will not the Father deny Christ? neither will he us. Will not the Father reject Christ? neither will he us; he is become a Father to us, as well as to him. Indeed there is a great disproportion between Christ and us in this paternal relation; he is by Nature, we by Grace; he is the only begotten Son, we adopted sons; he is perfectly holy, and the meritorious cause of this relation for us. Therefore the Socinian doctrine is to be abhorred, who makes Christs Sonship, and that of believers, to differ only in degrees, not in kind. Yet in the general, because by him, God is made a Father, we may improve it, in what we have his promise for, as Christ himself did. Hence 2 Sam. 7. 14. what is spoken of Solomon, as a type of Christ, and in the general is true of all believers, the Apostle Heb. 1. applieth to Christ, as in such particulars:

Thirdly, This is greatly for our comfort, Because though there be some distance and inequality, yet we may upon the same general grounds plead the bowels of a Father, and all the effects of fatherly love, as Christ himself may. Will not the Father deny Christ? neither will he us. Will not the Father reject Christ? neither will he us; he is become a Father to us, as well as to him. Indeed there is a great disproportion between Christ and us in this paternal relation; he is by Nature, we by Grace; he is the only begotten Sonne, we adopted sons; he is perfectly holy, and the meritorious cause of this relation for us. Therefore the Socinian doctrine is to be abhorred, who makes Christs Sonship, and that of believers, to differ only in degrees, not in kind. Yet in the general, because by him, God is made a Father, we may improve it, in what we have his promise for, as Christ himself did. Hence 2 Sam. 7. 14. what is spoken of Solomon, as a type of Christ, and in the general is true of all believers, the Apostle Heb. 1. applieth to Christ, as in such particulars: