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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 28-30
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Secondly, God is much more the Father of Mankind. The Apostle voucheth that to the superstitious Athenians as a Divine truth, out of their own Authors (Acts 17.28.) As certain also of your own Poets have said, for we are also his off spring; we are sprung from him as Branches from the Root, or as Streams from the Fountain: Not that we are, as the Streams with the Fountain, or the Branches with the Roo•, of the same Nature with him, (which to imagine were highest Blasphemy) but we take or receive our Nature from him, that is, he hath made us to be what we are, and in him, that is, in dependence upon him, we live and move, and have our Being.
Secondly, God is much more the Father of Mankind. The Apostle voucheth that to the superstitious Athenians as a Divine truth, out of their own Authors (Acts 17.28.) As certain also of your own Poets have said, for we are also his off spring; we are sprung from him as Branches from the Root, or as Streams from the Fountain: Not that we are, as the Streams with the Fountain, or the Branches with the Roo•, of the same Nature with him, (which to imagine were highest Blasphemy) but we take or receive our Nature from him, that is, he hath made us to be what we are, and in him, that is, in dependance upon him, we live and move, and have our Being.
Thirdly, If God own himself as a Father to all things, and to all men, in a general way of Nature, then much more doth he own himself a Father to all his people in a way of grace. What the Apostle saith of his Title Saviour (1 Tim. 4.10.) He is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe; so I may say of this ⟨p. 221⟩Relation Fat•er, God is the Father of all men, but especially of those that believe. The fatherhood which stands in grace is the highest and most excellent fatherhood which God beareth to any of his Creatures: As to this he Apostle (