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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

A Practical Consideration OF THE SAINTS SONSHIP In a Discourse upon the fourth Chapter of the Galatians vers 6. London Printed by Robert Ibbitson 1656. A Practical Consideration of the Saints Son-ship GAL. 4.6 And because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son in your hearts crying Abba Father THe Apostle having shewed the poor and mean condition the Law rendered us in holds out the glory of our condition under the Gospel in the consideration of our Son-ship wee being by our Lords comming freed from that pupillage and bondage wee were before held under that wee might receive the adoption of Sonnes and being redeemed thereunto receive the spirit and all good things as a consequent of such a state These words do acquaint us in the general scope of them with this great truth that it is not any Grace in us or works done by us That first brings us into that state of the Gospel wherein wee have favour and acceptance with God but God first appoints us unto such a state and thereupon gives us Grace sutable unto it Because yee are Sonnes Because God hath in Christ appointed you to such a glorious estate therefore is the spirit of his Sonne and all good things given unto you although I might speak much of this yet I intend to confine my self to the observing only this one truth Doct That the state of a Christian under the Gospel is a state of Son-ship Wee finde in our natural state wee are absolute enemies unto God under the Law wee come but to be servants but under the Gospel we become sons Wee bear herein a proportion with the Lord Christ our head who is not as Moses was a servant in Gods house but hee is a Son he is the Son in his own house and therefore his brethren are Sons that Son-ship that hee hath from the Father it carries their Son-ship in it As hee in his humanity became like them in all things sin only excepted so are they in their conformity made like him in all things save wherein hee is their Saviour and their head and as they have one common image to both so have they one principle and root for the Apostle tells us that our life is hid with Christ in God that is the Saints life and is hid together with Christs life in God hee is the fountain of both their lives This comprehends in a word the excellent Grace and glory of the Gospel that such poor remote wretches from God such strangers and enemies as wee are should become Sons should hee born of God in Christ and inherit freely all his grace and glory the Apostle seems to make a stop and admire at this Behold saith hee what manner of love the father hath shewed unto us that we should be called the Sonnes of God! T is not only a thing of admirable advantage but of astonishing honour could David think it a great matter to bee a Kings Sonne in Law and shall not wee value this high calling of God in Christ Jesus To bee his sons the Apostle speaks of this as the highest thing wee can attain to in this life now saith hee wee are the sons of God we finde in Scripture the Lord pleasing to afford this title three ways first and principally to Christ hee is always called the Son and somewhat more the only begotten Son of the father none ever begotten as hee was first in respect of his eternal essence wherein hee is the eternal Son and secondly in respect of his humanity and manhood and his headship therein to both creations hee being so begotten the spring of all natural life and being and the head of his body the Church wee finde also the Angells called the Sons of God and in Job 38.7 when the morning Stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy speaking of the Angels and in Luke 3.38 Adam is called the son of God This is in reference unto their first creation and lastly in this Gospel sense this honour have all the Saints to be called Sons and this their son ship through and in Christ the only son is farre more excellent than that of the Angels or of Adams the root of Adams state and glory lay in himself and so being mutable hee of a Son created became a fallen depraved bitter enemy this is unchangeably fixed and growing daily to perfection t is more excellent than that of the Angels in as much as it is wrought and ariseth to the exceeding glory of free grace out of enmity darknesse and a fallen state which they were never in and secondly as t is in Christ the head of this Son-ship exalted above the Angels in the excellency and glory of it There be two questions may be fitly resolved in this place 1 How come we to this estate and then wherein doth it consist 2 How stood the Saints under the Law in the old Testament in reference to it For the first question we come to this state by Christs purchase alone wee receive it from God through him and it hath its root in him hee dispenseth it to us him hath God the father sealed for this purpose this wee see in Joh. 1.12 But to as many as received him to them hee gave power or dignity to become the Sons of God It consists in this that our Lord Christ by what hee hath in his own person done hath taken from us the yoak of the first covenant and of the Law under which wee were as strangers and so dealt withall and hath obtained a right for us to this state of Son-ship and neerness to God wherein wee freely inherit life and salvation hee hath broken down the partition wall of sin and gilt that was between God and man by reason of his inability to fulfil the righteousnesse of the Law and having satisfied that and nailed the condemning power thereof upon his crosse hee brings man that was so farre off thus neer unto God and makes him look upon God no more as an infinite being who is a law giver only and a judge but now in him become a most affectionate tender father and brings God who was thus in Christ reconciling himself to the world to bee no more as at a distance but neer and one with the Creature as a Father and in the deerest and neerest relations God is become in Christ a Father and wee his children our maker our husband and we his Spouse and so wee are brought into this blessed state wherein God deals with us as Sonnes with all love sweetness and familiarity And lastly That which makes this right of Son-ship which Christ hath so purchased and obtained effectuall and gives us the possession of it is God gives us the spirit of his Son Christs Son-ship is as it were communicated unto us and so wee have not only a right of Son-ship in Christ but through him the spirit of sons to apply to God as a Father and wee