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, 7 provided 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