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

2. The testimony which the spirit of God gives in to their state of Adoption, witnessing in them that God hath numbered them to his Children, and joined them in the inheritance of all blessings with his own Son, Rom. 8. 16, 17. The spirit it self leaveth witness, &c. The effect consequent upon this testimony is assurance, which assurance is in it self a piece of inchoate Glorification, but the witness which the Spirit of God bears in us by virtue of which we are confirmed in this knowledge, is a privilege of Adoption: and though Believers do not always so distinctly hear him testifying, and to be able ⟨p. 21⟩to draw the comfort of it to their Souls, yet they have always this witness in them, because the Spirit of God is ever with them.

2. The testimony which the spirit of God gives in to their state of Adoption, witnessing in them that God hath numbred them to his Children, and joyned them in the inheritance of all blessings with his own Son, Rom. 8. 16, 17. The spirit it self leaveth witness, &c. The effect consequent upon this testimony is assurance, which assurance is in it self a piece of inchoate Glorification, but the witness which the Spirit of God bears in us by vertue of which we are confirmed in this knowledge, is a priviledge of Adoption: and though Believers do not alwayes so distinctly hear him testifying, and to be able ⟨p. 21⟩to draw the comfort of it to their Souls, yet they have alwayes this witness in them, because the Spirit of God is ever with them.

3. The enlivening of their Faith, and thereby enabling of them to God to God as a Father, and claim this Relation, and upon the claim believingly to plead with him for the acceptance of their persons, the audience of their Prayers, the granting of their requests, and supplying of all their wants,