CHAPTER XII.
Of Adoption.
All those that are justified, God vouchsafes, in and for His only Son
Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, by which they are
taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of
God, have His name put upon them, receive the spirit of adoption, have access to
the throne of grace with boldness, are enabled to cry, Abba, Father, are pitied,
protected, provided for, and chastened by Him as by a Father: yet never cast
off, but sealed to the day of redemption; and inherit the promises, as heirs of
everlasting salvation.