A65285:1185
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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4. That God should adopt his Enemies: If a Man adopts another for his Heir, he will not adopt his mortal Enemy; but that God should adopt us when we were not only Strangers but Enemies. Here is the Wonder of Love, for God to have pardoned his Enemies had been much, but to adopt them for his Heirs, this sets the Angels in Heaven a wondering.
4. That God should adopt his Enemies: If a Man adopts another for his Heir, he will not adopt his mortal Enemy; but that God should adopt us when we were not only Strangers but Enemies. Here is the Wonder of Love, for God to have pardoned his Enemies had been much, but to adopt them for his Heirs, this sets the Angels in Heaven a wondring.
5. That God should take great Numbers out of the Devil's Family and adopt them into the Family of Heaven. Christ is said to bring many sons to glory, Heb. 2.10. Men adopt usually but one Heir, but God is resolved to increase his Family, he brings many Sons to Glory. God's adopting Millions, is the Wonder of Love. Had but one been adopted, all of us might have despaired, but he brings many Sons to Glory; this opens a Door of Hope to us.
5. That God should take great Numbers out of the Devil's Family and adopt them into the Family of Heaven. Christ is said to bring many sons to glory, Heb. 2.10. Men adopt usually but one Heir, but God is resolved to encrease his Family, he brings many Sons to Glory. God's adopting Millions, is the Wonder of Love. Had but one been adopted, all of us might have despair'd, but he brings many Sons to Glory; this opens a Door of Hope to us.