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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
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. They cut not off his relation to God. A Son is as much a Son under the Rod, as in the Bosom; neither the Fathers stroke, nor the Child's grief, dissolve that dear relation: Nay a Father may show more of a true paternal affection in his Chastisements than in his Caresses. The Branches which are battered with Sticks, may be nearer the Root than those that flourish at their ease. Christ while a Man of sorrows was pronounced by God, his well beloved Son, and bore our punishment, not only without forfeiting his Fathers affection, but with a high gratification of him: Neither doth God's visiting the seed of Christ with stripes cut off their relation to him, Psal. 89.32. Then will I visit their transgressions with Rods. Whose transgressions? v. 30 His Children. Whose Children? Even the Children of him whom he would make the first born, higher than the Kings of the Earth, v. 27. Which cannot be understood literally of David, or his Lineal Posterity in the Jewish Kingdom, who were never higher than the Kings of the Earth.
1. They cut not off his relation to God. A Son is as much a Son under the Rod, as in the Bosom; neither the Fathers stroke, nor the Childs grief, dissolve that dear relation: Nay a Father may shew more of a true paternal affection in his Chastisements than in his Caresses. The Branches which are battered with Sticks, may be nearer the Root than those that flourish at their ease. Christ while a Man of sorrows was pronounced by God, his well beloved Son, and bore our punishment, not only without forfeiting his Fathers affection, but with a high gratification of him: Neither doth God's visiting the seed of Christ with stripes cut off their relation to him, Psal. 89.32. Then will I visit their transgressions with Rods. Whose transgressions? v. 30 His Children. Whose Children? Even the Children of him whom he would make the first born, higher than the Kings of the Earth, v. 27. Which cannot be understood literally of David, or his Lineal Posterity in the Jewish Kingdom, who were never higher than the Kings of the Earth.