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…

If Sons, then he loves you as Sons, as a father doth his sons; you think the Lord loves you not, because you do not alway feel his love, nor know his love; is thy son not thy child, because whiles it is young, it kno was not the father that begot it, or because thou art some time departed from it, ⟨p. 285⟩and hast it not alway in thy own arm••? Israel saith, my God hath forsaken me and forgotten me, Isa. 49.14. and yet no mother tenders her child, as the Lord did them; you think because you have so many sins and afflictions one upon another, that the Lord loves you not: judge righteously, hath thy child no father because it is sick long together, and therefore kept under unto a spare diet? no, he knows our mould, and that we are but dust, and freely chose us to be his Sons, and hence loves notwithstanding all our sins: Psal. 89.32, 33. if he sees Ephraim bemoaning his stubbornness, as well as his sickness and weakness, Jer. 31.20. doth not the Lord profess, Is he not my only Son?

If Sonnes, then he loves you as Sons, as a father doth his sons; you think the Lord loves you not, because you doe not alway feel his love, nor know his love; is thy son not thy child, because whiles it is young, it kno was not the father that begot it, or because thou art some time departed from it, ⟨p. 285⟩and hast it not alway in thy owne arm••? Israel saith, my God hath forsaken me and forgotten me, Isa. 49.14. and yet no mother tenders her child, as the Lord did them; you think because you have so many sins and afflictions one upon another, that the Lord loves you not: judge righteously, hath thy child no father because it is sick long together, and therefore kept under unto a spare diet? no, he knowes our mould, and that we are but dust, and freely chose us to be his Sons, and hence loves notwithstanding all our sins: