. Sermons on the following subjects ... SERMON IV. Of being the Children of GOD. Rom. viii. 16, 17. 72^ Spirit itfelf beareth wit7tefswith our Spirit^ that we are theChildren of God: Afid if Childreiithen Heirs; Heirs of God^ andyoint-Heirs with Chriji, N difcourfing upon thefe S e r of the Apoftle, I fhall to explain briefly ^*ly?, What is here meant byour being Childre?t of God,zdly^ What is to be underftood, by our being. 74 ^f ^^^^g the S E R M. being filled Heirs of God, and joint-hein\^r>^ w///6 Chriji. And 3^/j, How the Spiritof God, the Spirit i


. Sermons on the following subjects ... SERMON IV. Of being the Children of GOD. Rom. viii. 16, 17. 72^ Spirit itfelf beareth wit7tefswith our Spirit^ that we are theChildren of God: Afid if Childreiithen Heirs; Heirs of God^ andyoint-Heirs with Chriji, N difcourfing upon thefe S e r of the Apoftle, I fhall to explain briefly ^*ly?, What is here meant byour being Childre?t of God,zdly^ What is to be underftood, by our being. 74 ^f ^^^^g the S E R M. being filled Heirs of God, and joint-hein\^r>^ w///6 Chriji. And 3^/j, How the Spiritof God, the Spirit itfelf beareth wiUiefswith Our Spirit, if we be good Chrifti-ans, that thefe Characters do truly belongto us. I/?, I A M to coniider what is here meantby our being children of God. God is inScripture filled, ^he Father of All \ 6. One God and Father of All, who isabove all, and through all, and in us , the title Father is applied to him, inrefped: of his giving Being to all things,as they are his Creatures and the Workof his hands. For though inanimate orirrational creatures can in no Senfe be fil-led the Children of God j yet God, con-iidered as the Author of All Being, mayproperly enough be filled the Father ofthe Univerfe. In a Senfe fomewhat morereftrained, and with regard to fuch Be-ings to whom he has given Life andReafon and Moral Faculties, God is fil-led the Father, of whom the Whole Familyin Heaven and Earth is 7tamed, Eph.


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