EDIFYING THOUGHTS

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Go D's Paternal Heart,

TENDING

To promote intimate Converse with, and
Confidence in GOD, and JESUS CHRIST
our Saviour.

Tranflated from the GERMAN of

C. H. v. BOGATZ K Y,

Author of the GOLDEN TREASURY for the CHIL-
DREN of GOD, whofe Treasure is in heaven;
published in English.

LONDON:

Printed for J. RICHARDSON, in Pater-nofter-row;
and T. FIELD, the Corner of Pater-nofter-row,

Cheapfide.

M DCC LXI.

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N feveral paffages of my laft piece on intimate converfe with God, I have faid that fuch an intimate converfe with God is not to be attained without a knowledge of God's paternal heart, and to that end the Lord's Prayer fhould be attentively confidered, as Jefus who came from the Father's bofom thoroughly knows God's paternal heart, and in the Lord's Prayer has fet before us a lively portrait of it. It was owing to the fhortnefs of the time appointed for that work, that I did not more enlarge on it; fo that in this piece I fhall compenfate for that omiffion by way A

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