Chapter 12 Of Adoption
- All those that are justified, God conferred, in and for the sake of his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, 1 by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God, 2 have his name put on them, 3 receive the spirit of adoption,4 have access to the throne of grace with boldness, are enabled to cry Abba, Father,5 are pitied,6 protected,7provided for, 8 and chastened by him as by a Father,9 yet never cast off,10 but sealed to the day of redemption,11 and inherit the promises as heirs of everlasting salvation.12
[1] Eph. 1:5; Gal. 4:4, 5 [2] John 1:12; Rom. 8:17 [3] 2 Cor. 6:18; Rev. 3:12 [4] Rom. 8:15 [5] Gal. 4:6; Eph. 2:18 [6] Ps. 103:13 [7] Prov. 14:26; 1 Pet. 5:7 [8] Heb. 12:6 [9] Isa. 54:8, 9 [10] Lam. 3:31 [11] Eph. 4:30 [12] Heb. 1:14, 6:12