Calling On Him As Father

Et si Patrem invocatis eum... Dicendo in oratione: Pater noster, qui es in coelis... Qui sine acceptione personarum judicat... Non ut pater carnalis qui filiis peccantibus indulgentius parcere quam famulis consuevit. Pater autem Deus tantae justitiae et pietatis est, ut et servos humiles atque obedientes, imo et hostes sibi manum dantes mutet in adoptionem filiorum, et rursum eos qui filiorum nomine videntur honorabiliores, pro culpa inobedientiae prorsus haereditatis perpetuae reddat exsortes. In timore incolatus vestri tempore conversamini... Ne videlicet per desidiam et negligentiam tanto Patre existatis indigni, et dum tempore praesentis incolatus securi sitis, ad promissam patriae beatitudinem pervenire non possitis. Sanctus Beda, In Primam Epistolam Sancti Petri, Caput I Source: Migne PL 92.46a-b

And if you call on Him as Father... 1 Saying in prayer: Our Father, who are in heaven...' 2 He judges without regard to persons... Not as a carnal father who is accustomed to be more indulgent to erring sons than servants. For God the Father has such great righteousness and piety that even humble and obedient servants, and even enemies given into His hand, he may change into sons of adoption, and again those who seem to have the more honourable name of sons, for the fault of disobedience he will utterly strip of the eternal inheritance. Dwelling in fear spend your time. Lest by ildleness and negligence you live unworthy of such a Father, and while you dwell secure in the present time, you are not able to come to the promised blessedness of the fatherland. Saint Bede, from the Commentary on the First Letter Of Peter, Chap 1 1 1 Pet 1.17 2 Mt 6.9