The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit,…

If Sons, then the Lord doth prize and esteem you as Sons: If a Man hath twenty Sons, he esteems the ⟨p. 213⟩poorest, least, sick Child he hath, more than all his Goods and Servants, unless he be an unnatural Father; I tell you that the least of you, the poorest and most feeble Believer, is accounted of God, and more esteemed than all his Household-stuff; than Heaven, Earth, and all the Glory in it, and all the Kings and great Men in the World, Isai. 43.4, 5, 6. not because thou hast done any Thing worthy of this, but only because he accounts thee freely as his Son.

If Sons, then the Lord doth prize and esteem you as Sons: If a Man hath twenty Sons, he esteems the ⟨p. 213⟩poorest, least, sick Child he hath, more than all his Goods and Servants, unless he be an unnatural Father; I tell you that the least of you, the poorest and most feeble Believer, is accounted of God, and more esteemed than all his Houshold-stuff; than Heaven, Earth, and all the Glory in it, and all the Kings and great Men in the World, Isai. 43.4, 5, 6. not because thou hast done any Thing worthy of this, but only because he accounts thee freely as his Son.

If Sons, then the Lord surely will take Care for you as for Sons; a godly Father hath a double Care of his Children. First, of their Temporal, Secondly, and chiefly of their eternal Estate: We are ready to question in Times of Want, what we shall eat, drink, how we shall live; Oh consider, art thou a Son of God, and will not he that feeds the Ravens, and clothes the Lilies, Mat. 6.31, 32. provide for thee? Yes verily, he will take Care for thy temporal Good. It is true, you may be brought into outward Straits, Wants, Miseries, yet then the Lord is thereby plotting for thy eternal Good, for hence come all God's Corrections,