Richard Sibbes on Knowing God as Father through Christ

"We may know our trust in the name of the Lord,
being now conceived as a gracious Father in Christ,
clothed with the relation of a father:
for so we must trust him,
not God absolutely,
for there is no comfort in an absolute God,
distinct from his relations;
but when we approach him in relation as a sweet Father in Christ,
in that name,
then the nature of God is lovely to us,
between whom and us there was an infinite distance before.
Now Christ being Immanuel, God with us, has brought God and us together."