The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…

2. From the condition of those who are made partakers in this Grace, at such time as they are admitted unto it: Adoption came in upon effectual vocation; and when God comes to call sinners home to himself, he finds them strangers from God, and from the Covenant, Eph. 2. 12. at that time ye were aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel, and strangers from the Covenant of promise: they were also worthless creatures; they must all say as the returning ⟨p. 9⟩Prodigal, Luk. 15. 21. I am no more worthy to be called thy Son, they have nothing in them to render them more amiable or desirable in the eyes of God, when God looks on them with an eye of Fatherly pity, he finds them rolling and wallowing in their own blood, Ezek. 16. 5. When thou wast in thy Blood, I said unto thee live.

2. From the condition of those who are made partakers in this Grace, at such time as they are admitted unto it: Adoption came in upon effectual vocation; and when God comes to call sinners home to himself, he finds them strangers from God, and from the Covenant, Eph. 2. 12. at that time ye were aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel, and strangers from the Covenant of promise: they were also worthless creatures; they must all say as the returning ⟨p. 9⟩Prodigal, Luk. 15. 21. I am no more worthy to be called thy Son, they have nothing in them to render them more amiable or desirable in the eyes of God, when God looks on them with an eye of Fatherly pity, he finds them rowling and wallowing in their own blood, Ezek. 16. 5. When thou wast in thy Blood, I said unto thee live.