CHAPTER 12. OF ADOPTION

All those that are justified, God vouchsafed, 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 children of God,² have his name put upon 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

¹Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 4:4, 5 ²John 1:12; Romans 8:17 ³2 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 3:12 ⁴Romans 8:15 ⁵Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 2:18 ⁶Psalms 103:13 ⁷Proverbs 14:26 ⁸1 Peter 5:7 ⁹Hebrews 12:6 ¹⁰Isaiah 54:8, 9; Lamentations 3:31 ¹¹Ephesians 4:30 ¹²Hebrews 1:14; 6:12