The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William ... - Adkinshorton.net

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Father, (:k^\ng, .hereby vek»^thM we tb^ellinhim, becdufe he
hath given tu of his ffirit^ijohn 4. 1 3. fo then, as foon as ever a
believing finnerisunited toChrift by f'aith,hcisat the fame inftant
united to his Father aifo by the fpirit of adoption :
and thus we come in a farr.iliar way to be united hrft to the*
Mediator, and then to bisFacficr as to cur father, which is the
higheft degreo o[ hjppincG that ever any poor Tinner can think on.
Traacf .
ToH f/takj our union with the Father to begin frft in
the CMediatur,but the yipcfi/e James doth tell «*, that the Father
doth beget m ^fhis eWytgooii Mr;Y/; James 1 . i Z. Hence I in fir that the
Fa: her do:h ttnite w immediately to himfelf by jidoption.even from
Eternity, fir he that begets^ and they that are begot tern ofhim, are
immediatly united.
Divine The Father begets none Cneithcr from eternity not
in timej without his mean , that is to fay, without the Mediator,
uor yet without the holy Spirit -and therefore in that rcfpeA the
Each pffo"
^^"^ holy Spirit is called the feed of God. i John 3. 9.
th^"in'thc aft f Hence I hifer, that all the perfons in Trinity may be truely calour
f^iriiuaigc- ed our Fathct in thcadofour fpiritual ccncratiou, thouchina
dinering manner.
1. God the Father is our Father cfficiencly,ind in that fcnft the
Apoftle lames faith ,/^^r of his orvngood will he begat us by the W'ord
of truth ; his meaning is, that the Fathers good will and pleafure
was the only c tticient caufe oi our adoption ;by ordaining the word
of truth as thecffcdual inArument thereof.
2. Thcm:diacorisour Fatherinthead^ofour fpiritual g