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ghat tte
1lityf?ery
of
Godlinefs
ù
in Adoption.
Secondly,
The
myflery of
Godliinefs
confias
in
this,
that
though they be
adopted
children, yet they
are
by
Regenerate-
on
to
this
is
a
myflery of the Gofpel,
we are faid
to
be
A-
dopted
children
in
Sc!
ipture. Now
among
men,
the
fame
.
man
cannot be
adopted
and
begotten
both
,
a
child
by adopti-
on
and
a
child
by
generation
of
the
fame
man, but it
is
fo
herè,
all
the children of God
are
the
children of God
by
Adoption,
and
yet the children of
God
by
generation,
not
in
that
way
of
generation
as
the
fecond
perfon
in
Trinity
is
the
Son
of
the
Father
,
nor
as
he
is
God
-man
,
conceived
by the
Holy
Ghoa;
but
by
another work of the
Holy
Ghofl
which
is
next
unto that , the
next moll glorious work
of the
Holy
Ghofl
is, for
to Regenerate children unto God
by
an
immor-
tal
feed
of the
word
,
to beget them
unto
God
;
and yet for
all this
they are children
by
adoption
:
Now
adoption
is
that
whereby
a
man
when he hath
no
child
of
his own,
doth
take up
and
own
another
to be
his
child or
heir
;
So
we
that
were
not
children our
felves by
nature
,
God
now by
his unfpeakable
Grace
loth
adept
pis
:
But in that he doth adopt us,
and
rege-
nerate
us
both,
this
is
a
great miaery of the Gofpel that
is
in
this point.
Thirdly, The
great myaery
is
in this
, that they
are
the
children of
God
by
their
union
with
Jefus
Chria
the
onely
Son
of God
;
they
come
to their
Sonthip
by
their
union
with
je-
fus
Chria
the eternal
Son
of
God
;
they come
to be
children
of
God in
a
higher
way
then could
be by
creation;
in
a
high-
er
way
then the
Angels are
children of
God,
the
Scrip ure
indeed
calls
the
Angels the
fens
of
God,
I
but the
Saints
are
Sons
of
God
in
a
higher
way
then the
Angelsare
, the
Angels
are not the
Sons
of
God
by
their
union with the
Eternal
Son
of
God,
and being made
one
with him. And from the
Raies (as
I
may
fay)
and Glorious beams of
his
Sonfhin
,
they
are
not
made
fo.
So
that
every
believer,
every peace-
tnaker
that
is
Godly,
is
a
child
of God
by
virtue
of 'his
Union with the
Eter-
nal
Son
of
God,
and he hath
the Raies
and
the Glory of
that
Sonfhip
of
his
to fhine
upon
him.
Now
this Son(hip isa`high-
er
degree of
Sonihip then by
nature, e.4daw
was a
Son
of
God
fo,