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Ephefian$,Chap:
t.
VE
R. 5.
but fentence
this
ofme,
that
I am
juft before
God,
fo
as
to
receive
life
from
his grace.
Now
to be
juft
is
one
thing, to be
reckoned a fon,
ano-
ther.
Againe,
thisadoption
is
called
by the
name
of
a
dignity,
or
emi-
nency,
yea glory
it
felfe
is
called
by the
name
of
Adoption,
Rom. 8.
waytang
form.
adoption, even
the
redemption ofour'bïdies
: To
omit that,
Rom.
9.4.
thofe
two words, Adoption
and
Glory,
may
be put for one
thing,
viz.
Glorious adoption
:
For, the Arke
is
well comprehended
in
that
head
of
fervice; as
a
principali type belonging to the
Law ceremo.
niall;and
look,
as
not
only aftually to
poffeffe
the kingdome, but to
be
heyre apparant
of
it,
is
a
great point
ofglory;fo the
dignity
of
adoption,
adopting
us as
fonnes, and heyres apparant
of
the kingdome
of
heaven,
is
a
great part
of
glory,as
well
as
the
inheritance
it
felfe.
There
are
but
two things
of
moment which I know to be
objeCted.
Objelí.r.
That
which we have immediately
on
beleeving,
that
belongeth to
our
juftification
:
but
beleeving we
have this
priviledge, nothing
com-
ming
betweene,
lohn
1.12.
Re/g.
The
fecond part
of
this reafon
is
nottrue,
and
the proofe
is unfuffici_
ene ;
for though
we
are adopted, beleeving on
Chrift,
which
the
tefli-
mony
voydeth, yet
it
followeth notthat we are immediately
adopted,
nothing comming
betweene our faith
and
adoption.
We
are
laid
to
be
faved
byfaith,to haveeternall
life
beleeving,yet
between
faith and
life,
juftification muff
be conceived;
fo
here alfo.
Obj
+Ff,z.
The
fecond reafon
is ;
that
whichgiveth
us
a
title
to
life,
that
muff be
a
branch
of
our
juftification
to
life
:
But
our adoption giveth
us
title to
Refs.
life.
To
the
firft
part
I
anfwer with limitation thus
;
That
which giveth
us
title
to
life, being
it felfe
no circumftance, nor part
of
life,
now ex.
ecuted in
us
:
But
fo
adoption doth
not, which
is
the
giving
of
life,
in
re-
gard
it maketh
life
now ours,
as
an
Orphans
lands are
his;
ours,
as
who
have
the right to it, but
are
not yet
aEtually poffeffed in
it. Should
not the propofition be limited'
as
I
have
Paid,
it would prove,
that
the
giving
of
the fpirit belongeth
to
juftification,
for
that doth
give
me
right to
life,
as
an earneft penny,
or part
of
paiment,
doth
give a man
right to challenge the whole fumme.
This
benefit then
is
fitly couched
under
that
Taft
ofour
glorification,ROm.B
Whom he
predeflinated
he caged,
whom he called he
jafhfied,
whom he
jailifred heglorified
;
in
this manner
executing their glory
:
Firft
he
giveth them
of
grace, the dignity of
fonne-fhip,
and
fo
a
right
to glory,
and after
he doth
actually
poffeffe
them
of it;
thus glorifying
thofe
whom
out
ofgrace
hehad juftified,
tothe
receiving
oflife from
him,as
a
gift
of
his
meere
grace.
Thisthen
being,
that God
did
before all worlds difpofe
the
meaner
whereby we
that
are his fhould be
brought
to
adoption
;
how
Ihould
we admire this fo
great grace which we
found
in
his eyes
from
all
eter-
nity
a
Thou
beleeving foule
who
by faith art
married
to
Chrift
Jefus,
thou who
haft received
the fpirit, which maketh thee
call'Abba
Father,
the
fpirit
ofthisAdoption, what
is this
now wrought
in
time, but that
which God
did preordaine
before
all
time,
even
thy Adoption
through
Chrifte
See then
what lovetheFather didbear thee,that thou
fhouldft be
made