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A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing.…
A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasioned by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasion'd by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1714
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Reas. 4. God is our Father: Therefore we should Comply with his Will and Pleasure. Our Saviour Christ has taught us the greatest Submission & Resignation to the Will of God our Heavenly Father. When the bitterest Cup that ever could be tasted of, was given ⟨p. 29⟩to him, He said, The Cup which my Father has given me, shall I not Drink it? Joh. 18.14. God is a Father to all the men in the world in respect of Creation. Have we not all one Father? has not one God Created us? Mal. 2.10. And if he is our Father, where is that Honour of Obedience which we all owe to him? But as for Believers on Christ, He is their Father not only in respect of Creation, but of Adoption; on which account they are under the greatest Obligation to Obedience that possibly can be. It is very grievous to God when they that are his Adopted Children, although' it be only in respect of an External Adoption; much more if they are Savingly Adopted, & yet shall by Disobedience to his Will Dishonour his Name. They Provoke him most bitterly. Deut. 32.19. He greatly abhorred them, because of the Provoking of his Sons, and of his Daughters. If Children that have a good & a loving Father, shall disobey him, they are very Criminal. But what shall be said then, of those who are Disobedient to a Good ⟨p. 30⟩and Loving God and Father? Heaven and Earth may be astonished at it, that ever such Ungrateful Wretches should be found among the Children of men: Isa. 1.2. Hear O Heavens, and give ear, O Earth; for the Lord has spoken, I have nourished and brought up Children, and they have Rebelled against me.
Reas. 4. God is our Father: Therefore we should Comply with his Will and Pleasure. Our Saviour Christ has taught us the greatest Submission & Resignation to the Will of God our Heavenly Father. When the bitterest Cup that ever could be tasted of, was given ⟨p. 29⟩