4 My Father 1$8God, I declire unto you his Mind and Will ; no uncertian things, but what I have feen with him, that is, wharI cer- lanly know to be his Will. w You declare by your Actions who is your Father ; and as I do my Fathers Will, and what he reacherh me t0Go, {5 you do the works which the Devil, whois your Father, #7. 44, prompreth you to do.
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- 2.07 Father x :; Jeſus ſaid unto them *, + ri Abra- % . "8. 4 *11ams children, ye would do the works of Abrahamy.
- This was their continual boaſt, as may be learned from >{4t.3.9. 7.07YNZ 12) their Birth Priviledge, as Abraham being the Father of nm whole Ze {{» Nation,and in their Cluarch Priviledge, 4brahambe- ng tar Head of the Few:ſÞþ Church, and he to whom the Promiſes *e mice. y Bur Chriſt raketh them off this Glorying, by minding them, that the Blood of Abraham running in their Veins, would be , _ h2micancy ro them, ſo long as they did not walk in Abra- 75 Steps. Men are truly ro be accounted the Children of thoſe, not from whom they are naturally Deſcended, but whoſe Steps they walk n, and whom they imitate in their Converſations.
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were not by natural Traduction, yet taey were by imitation. þ Wit- fully doing the things which rhe Devil would have them do ; he in. {tancerh in two of theſe Luits, z Murder, he faith the D-vil from rhe beginning, of the World had a mind and delign againit the Sons of Men ; and he ever fince (as the Apoille tells us} :ath gone abort lihs a roaring lion ſceking whom he may devour. And in this they were bis true Children, uting all arts unaginable to Celiroy him whom God harh ſent into the World tor mans Salvation. 4 In another thing alſo, they were the r:ue and genmine Children, of the Devil, The Cevil had no Truth in kim, nor did he abide in the Truth. God indeed created the Angels (who afterward fell } in a are of Recti- trade, withour unrizhrecuſnets ; but they did nor Keep their firtl Station. So neither did they love the Truth, nor abide in it, bur were wholly Falſe and Liars, and could nor abide the Trath.
45 And becauſe I tell you the truth, you believe me not /.
1 Such is your hatred to the Truth, that you bate ime {or no other reaſon, but becauſe I reveal my Fathers Will, ( witch is the Truth ) to yon, than which nothing can evidence a greater hatred to Truth,
nor conformity and likeneſs to the Devil 3 there cannor be a greater Eviderice of any ones hatred of the Truth, than the hatred of rhofe who tell them the Truth ; and for this very reaion becaule they as fo.
45 Which of you convinceth me of {in? anc it i ſay the truth, why do ye nor beheve mem? _
7 If any of you can prove, that I have ſpoken to you any thing that is falſe and not conſonant to the will of 1fay Father, do it, bur wittco of you is able ro Charge me with any fuch thing ? If there be no f.uct) ching, bur I have told you what is the very truth, and the we. Of ny Father, as to what you are to believe and Coz Why do younort bclizys me 2 For every reaſonable Soul 3 a Debtor ro Truth.
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