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An exposition on the Lord's prayer with a catechistical explication thereof, by way of…
An exposition on the Lord's prayer with a catechistical explication thereof, by way of question and answer for the instructing of youth : to which is added some sermons on providence, and the excellent advantages of reading and studying the Holy Scriptures / by Ezekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed for Nathanael Ranew, 1692
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.
Thirdly, By Spiritual Regeneration and Adoption.
First, God is a Father by Eternal Generation; having by an inconceivable and ineffable way begotten his Son, God Co-equal, Co-eternal with himself; and therefore called, The only begotten Son of God, Joh. 3.16. Thus God is a Father, only to our Lord Jesus Christ, according to his Divine Nature. ⟨p. 13⟩And whensoever this Title, Father, is given to God, with relation to the Eternal Sonship of our Lord Jesus Christ, it denotes only the First Person in the ever Blessed Trinity; who is therefore chiefly and especially called the Father.
Secondly, God is a Father by Temporal Creation, as he gives a Being and Existence to his Creatures; creating those whom he made Rational after his own Image and Similitude. And therefore God is said to be a Father of Spirits, Heb. 12.9. And the Angels are called the Sons of God, Job 1.6. There was a day when the Sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. And so Adam upon the account of his Creation, is called the Son of God, Luke 3.38. where the Evangelist runs up the Genealogy of Mankind till it terminates in God, Who was the Son of Adam, who was the Son of God.