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Adoption 1.
FOR the sake of His only Son, Jesus Christ, God has been pleased to
make all justified persons sharers in the grace of adoption, by means of
which they are numbered with, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of
children of God. Furthermore, God's name is put upon them, they receive
the spirit of adoption, and they are enabled to come boldly to the throne
of grace and to cry 'Abba, Father'. They are pitied, protected, provided
for, and chastened by God as by a Father.
He never casts them off, but, as they remain sealed to the day of
redemption, they inherit the promises as heirs of everlasting salvation.
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