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what
the
M
fier
y
+o
f
God!ia'e
f
fe
is
in
Adoption.
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what
manner of
love,
the
Fatf
er
bath
befiowed
upon
us,
that
we
fhould
be
called
the
Sons
of
God
:
ô
this is the
love
of
God
in-
deed, that
we
should be called the
Sons
of
uod
:
---
Arri
it's
the fruit
of
eleetion. In the
i
Ephef:
5.
v.
Having-
predejlina-
ted nr unto
the
Adoption
of
children
by
fetes
.'haft
to
hCmfel(e
according
to
the
goodpleaftireofhis'will
:
-
--
bath
prec4jtiziate:l
au,
to what
?
unto
the
adoption
of
children,
that's the
fpecial
thing
that
Cod
aims
at
in
preáeflination
:.that's
the
blellThg,
When
God
was
looking upon
the lump of the children
of men,
well,faith
he,there
are force
that I mean to
paffe by
and
leave
to the
courfe
of Juflice: Oh but
there
are
others that
are
good
in-mine
eyes, that
is,
I
make
them
fo:
and.I'le
f
t
them
a
part
to
the Adoption of
Sons,
they
Thal'
be
my
children;
an
I'le
be
a
Father
to them
for
ever :Now that that I thought
to
have
fpoken
of
in
this point, fhould
have
been
full
the opening
of
this
bleffednefs,
in
being the child of
God.
Firfl,
what
is
the
miller),
of
Godlinefs in
this
Point
And
then
Secondly,
what
are the
great
priviledges
thefe
that
are
the
hildren'of
god
doe
come
to
en;oy by
it.
Firfl, The great
raillery
of
Godlinefs that
there
is
in
this
point
:
God
works very
\onderfull
in this,
in bringing
Sons
to
himfelf.
As
hrfl,
We
mull underfland
it
as a
millery ofGodlinefs;
Becaufe
thofe
that wete before children
of
wrath,
children
of difobedience
,
are now made
the
children of
Cod,
there's
no
childof
God,
that God
bath, but
only
that
only. Son
jefus
Chrill, but
was
a
child
of
wrath
before
he
was
a child of
God,
actually
made :. Every
mats or
womanthat
is a
child
of
God
now,
Certainely
was a
child
of
wrath.
before,
And for
God
to
nia'Ae
of children
of
wrath
to
be
his
chil-
dren
;
This
is a millers,
reveal'd
in the
Scrip=
tire
onely,
that
we
would
not.havé
corne ro
hive
known,
by
the
light
of
nature:
And
it
(hews
the bleffednefs o man
too
to
be
the
children
of
God,
when
we
were the
children
of wrath and
of difobedience and enemies
to
God,
Secondly,,