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Chapter 12. Of Adoption

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Chapter 12. Of Adoption

All those that are justified God vouchsafeth, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption;261 by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God;262 have his name put upon them;263 receive the Spirit of adoption;264 have access to the throne of grace with boldness;265 are enabled to cry, Abba, Father;266 are pitied,267 protected,268 provided for,269 and chastened by him as by a father;270 yet never cast off,271 but sealed to the day of redemption,272 and inherit the promises,273 as heirs of everlasting salvation.274

Footnotes

  1. 261

    Eph. i. 5; Gal. iv. 4, 5.

  2. 262

    Rom. viii. 17; John i. 12.

  3. 263

    Jer. xiv. 9; 2 Cor. vi. 18; Rev. iii. 12.

  4. 264

    Rom. viii. 15.

  5. 265

    Eph. iii. 12; Rom. v. 2.

  6. 266

    Gal. iv. 6.

  7. 267

    Psa. ciii. 13.

  8. 268

    Prov. xiv. 26.

  9. 269

    Matt. vi. 30, 32; 1 Pet. v. 7.

  10. 270

    Heb. xii. 6.

  11. 271

    Lam. iii. 31.

  12. 272

    Eph. iv. 30.

  13. 273

    Heb. vi. 12.

  14. 274

    l Pet. i. 3, 4; Heb. i. 14.