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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of Adoption.
Quest. 34. WHAT is Adoption?
A. Adoption is an act of God's Free-grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a Right to all the Privileges of the Sons of God.
A. Adoption is an act of God's Free-grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a Right to all the Priviledges of the Sons of God.
Q. 1. How many sorts of Sons be there?
A. There is one by Generation, and another by Adoption. John 1.12, 13. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe in his name; which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.