The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

Oh that the Lord would open our eyes to see this privilege; Behold it, saith John, 1 John 3.1. stand amazed at it, that children of wrath should become the Sons of the most high God; for a beggar on the dunghill, a vagabond, runagate from God, a prodigal, a stranger to God, whom the Lord had no cause to think on; to be made a Son of God Almighty.

Oh that the Lord would open our eyes to see this priviledge; Behold it, saith Iohn, 1 Iohn 3.1. stand amazed at it, that children of wrath should become the Sonnes of the most high God; for a begger on the dunghill, a vagabond, runnagate from God, a prodigall, a stranger to God, whom the Lord had no cause to think on; to be made a Son of God Almighty.

If Sons, then the Lord doth prize and esteem you as Sons: if a man hath twenty sons, he esteems the poorest, least, sick child he hath, more then all his goods and servants, unless he be an unnatural father; I tell you that the least of you, the poorest and most feeble believer, is accounted of God, and more esteemed then all his household-stuff; then heaven, earth, and all the glory in it, and all the Kings, and great men in the world: Isay 43.4, 5, 6. not because thou hast done any thing worthy of this, but only because he accounts thee freely as his Sonne.

If Sons, then the Lord doth prize and esteem you as Sonnes: if a man hath twenty sonnes, he esteems the poor•st, least, sick child he hath, more then all his goods and servants, unlesse he be an unnaturall father; I tell you that the least of you, the poorest and most •eeble beleever, is accounted of God, and more esteemed then all his houshold-stuffe; then heaven, earth, and all the glory in it, and all the Kings, and great men in the world: Isay 43.4, 5, 6. not because thou hast done any thing worthy of this, but only because he accounts thee freely as his Sonne.