A Body of Practical Divinity

Second Sign of Adoption, To love to be in our Father's Presence; the Child who loves his Father, is never so well as when he is near his Father. Are we Children, ⟨p. 138⟩we love the Presence of God in his Ordinances? In Prayer we speak to God, in the preaching of his Word he speaks to us: And how doth every Child of God delight to hear his Father's Voice? Psal. 63.1, 2. My soul thirsteth for thee, to see thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. Such as disregard Ordinances are not God's Children, because they care not to be in God's Presence: Gen. 4.17. Cain went out from the presence of the Lord. Not that he could go out of God's Sight, but the meaning is, Cain went from the Church and People of God, where the Lord gave visible Tokens of his Presence.

Second Sign of Adoption, To love to be in our Father's Presence; the Child who loves his Father, is never so well as when he is near his Father. Are we Children, ⟨p. 138⟩we love the Presence of God in his Ordinances? In Prayer we speak to God, in the preaching of his Word he speaks to us: And how doth every Child of God delight to hear his Father's Voice? Psal. 63.1, 2. My soul thirsteth for thee, to see thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. Such as disregard Ordinances are not God's Children, because they care not to be in God's Presence: Gen. 4.17. Cain went out from the presence of the Lord. Not that he could go out of God's Sight, but the me•ning is, Cain went from the Church and People of God, where the Lord gave vissible Tokens of his Presence.