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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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3. God is a Father by special Grace; he consecrates the elect by his Spirit, and infuseth a supernatural principle of Holiness, therefore they are said to be born of God, 1 John 3.9. Such only as are sanctified can say, Our Father which art in Heaven.
3. God is a Father by special Grace; he consecrates the elect by his Spirit, and infuseth a supernatural principle of Holiness, therefore they are said to be born of God, 1 Iohn 3.9. Such only as are sanctified can say, Our Father which art in Heaven.
Quest. 2. What is the difference between God being the Father of Christ, and the Father of the Elect?
Resp. God is the Father of Christ in a more glorious transcendent manner. Christ hath the primo-geniture; he is the eldest Son, a Son by eternal generation: Prov. 8.23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. Isa. 53.8. Who shall declare his generation? Christ is a Son to the Father, yet so, as he is of the same Nature with the Father, having all the incommunicable properties of the Godhead belonging to him: But we are Sons of God by Adoption and Grace; Gal. 4.5. That we might receive the adoption of Sons.