A65285:1180
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Use 1. Branch 1. See the amazing Love of God in making us his Sons. Plato gave God Thanks, that he had made him a Man, and not only a Man, but a Philosopher: but it is infinitely more, that he should invest us with the Prerogative of Sons. It is Love in God to feed us, but more to adopt us, 1 Joh. 3.1. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! It is an Ecce Admirantis, a Behold of Wonder.
The Wonder of God's Love in adopting us, will appear the more, if we consider these six things,
1. That God should adopt us when he had a Son of his own. Men adopt because they want Children, and desire to have some to bear their Name; but that God should adopt us when he had a Son of his own, the Lord Jesus, here is the Wonder of Love. Christ is called God's dear Son, Col. 1.13. A Son more worthy then the angels. Heb. 1.4. Being made so much better then the angels. Now when God had a Son of his own, such a Son, here is the Wonder of God's Love in adopting us. We needed a Father, but he did not need Sons.
1. That God should adopt us when he had a Son of his own. Men adopt because they want Children, and desire to have some to bear their Name; but that God should adopt us when he had a Son of his own, the Lord Iesus, here is the Wonder of Love. Christ is call'd God's dear Son, Col. 1.13. A Son more worthy then the angels.