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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55615	A practical consideration of the saints sonship In a discourse upon the fourth chapter of the Galatians, vers. 6.		1656 (1656)	Wing P3149; ESTC R221794	9,366	16

are not only under an outward administration of Son-ship wherein we should bee sure still to retain the mind and spirit of servants and enemies but have the hearts and spirits of Sons given unto us and are by this effectual provsion of the Lord no more in a spirit of bondage unto fear but of power and love and of a sound mind And thus our Lord hath redeemed us into the same state with himself hee being a Sonne wee are so too To the second question what enjoyment the Saints under the Law had of this priviledge my Answer is they then had this state of Son-ship in faith but not in possession until the fulnesse of time came they had a right to it as wee use to say but not in it the administration of the Law bowed down their backs they were at School under tutors and governours they did not receive this Adoption of Sons As heaven is now to us so was this state to them wee have a right to it and have it by faith yet stand obliged to the duties of our present administration in this life so they had a right to this Adoption of Sons by the son and saw it and hoped for it a farre off but lay obliged under the elements of the world and were shut up under the Law till the time appointed by their and our Father this better thing being kept for the Saints in these days that they without us might not bee perfect This Doctrin of the Saints son-ship being every where in the Scriptures witnessed unto I shall improve it these two wayes First By way of Use and then by way of Triall whether we be in possession of this state or not First And first if the Saints be now sons t is a shame to those who by a Legal carnal Ministery seek to make servants and slaves of them this they do who set up works and impose that yoak which our fathers were not able to bear who so urge the commands of the gospel as that they turn it into a meer Covenant of works and revive again the dead body of Moses which God himself hath buried and so erect a worldly Sanctuary as if Christ were not ascended and become a minister of the sanctuary and true tabernacle who brings the Conscience into bondage in those things wherein Christ hath made his people free who set the Saints to obtain that by works and conditions which they have by their sonship by inheritance this is the Devils constant design to scar men from the Gospel by obscuring that glorious life and spirit that is brought therein to light and if hee cannot overthrow the state of those that have received it to raise up Doctrins to make their course as wearisome and as full of bondage as hee can and therefore wee need often to read that advise of the Apostle in Gal. 5.1 stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free c. Secondly The second use may bee this if wee are sons do wee walk like sons of the most high are we filial towards God in our conversation are we as obedient Children not fashioned to this world if hee say come do wee come and if hee say go do wee go are wee at a beck waiting to bee disposed and directed by him and do we follow his commands as dear children without murmuring and without disputing if wee do not if wee professe God to bee our father may not hee say to us if I am your Father where is my honour the soveraignty of God may require our obedience from us but how much more should the consideration of him as a father beget it in us what the greatness of God will not do surely his goodnesse should not fail of Can there bee opposition unto kindness the infinite God takes that way to overcome us poor worms if God will own himself our father t is equal sure wee should behave our selves like his children and if hee bee our father should wee not shew forth his image if wee rightly consider it what greater priviledge imaginable what greater blessedness then to bear the glorious image of our Creator thus manifested in Christ who should do it if his sons his children should not wee are kept in the world for this purpose to bear forth his vertues and his praises before the blind world were it not for this work that is to be done he would soon take us to himself in the heavens What a great shame and dishonour is it unto the Lord to professe our selves his sons and yet walk in an earthy sensual devilish spirit le ts shew some tokens of our country and of our fathers house le ts carry some badge of a heavenly extraction wee have born the Image of the earthy plain enough O le ts bear the Image of the heavenly we are plainly Adams sons in nature le ts appear sons of God in grace How glorious how convincing would bee the life of a Christian if hee did shew forth the Image of his father whose tender mercies are over all his works who causeth his Sun to shine on the just and the unjust who when he bids us forgive till seventy times seven t is but that wee might bee like him our heavenly father who in that patience and goodness and forbearance and easinesse to be entreated which hee shews to us is a pattern what wee should do one towards another when ever a christian miscarries t is stepping aside from his Fathers Image this is that end concerning man God hath proposed to himself and been about by the Law by the Prophets by the Gospel by all as the way to make him happy and a fit object for his converse to stamp his own image upon him Thirdly Every Christian know your state thou art a son though but a babe in the Gospel wee are sons aad heirs and joynt heirs with Christ most Christians loose much of their comfort and strength by this they consider not the relation which in Christ God and man stand in together they live only in the comfort of their graces and not of their state A man may think easily too much of himself that is the error very many are in and hee may also think too low of himself the devil is not without his devises that way too A man can never bee debased enough as in himself and yet hee may exalt himself in that estate which God hath in Christ appointed him unto we may thus glory in the Lord Let not the Devil nor our unbeleeving hearts ever remove us from this wee are sonnes though Prodigals let this consideration help to recover us out of temptation when wee sit darkness and see no light Le ts think our selves too good to be feeding amongst the dogs and the swine of this world Le ts think our selves of too noble a quality and birth to be made slaves by Satan and captived at his will or to be servants unto men and to be in