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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
Chapter 5: Showing the Reason of the Proposition.Chapter 5: Shewing the Reason of the Proposition.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This word, Thy God, implies the relation of a Father. A Father loves his child; therefore whether it be a smile or a stroke, it is for the good of the child: I am Thy God, thy Father, therefore all I do is for thy good. Deut. 8.5. As a man chastens his Son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Gods chastening is not to destroy, but to reform. God cannot hurt his children, for 1. He is a tender-hearted Father, Psal. 103.13. Like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Will a father seek the ruin of his child, the child that came out of his loins, that bears his image? all his care and contrivance is for his child; who doth he settle the inheritance upon but his child? God is tender-hearted, the Father of mercies, 2 Cor. 1.3. He begets all the mercies and bowels in the creatures. 2. He is an everlasting Father, Isa. 9.7. He was our Father from eternity: Before we were Children, God was our Father, and he will be our Father to eternity. A Father provides for his child while he lives; but the Father dyes, and then the child may be exposed to ⟨p. 66⟩injury: But God never ceaseth to be a Father; thou that art a Believer, hast a Father that never dyes, and if God be thy Father, thou canst never be undone, all things must needs work for thy good.
This word, Thy God, implies the relation of a Father. A Father loves his child; therefore whether it be a smile or a stroke, it is for the good of the child: I am Thy God, thy Father, therefore all I do is for thy good. Deut. 8.5. As a man chastens his Son, so the Lord thy God chastneth thee. Gods chastning is not to destroy, but to reform. God cannot hurt his children, for 1. He is a tender-hearted Father, Psal. 103.13. Like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Will a father seek the ruine of his childe, the child that came out of his loins, that bears his image? all his care and contrivance is for his child; who doth he settle the inheritance upon but his child? God is tender-hearted, the Father of mercies,