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What
the
illyfiery
of
godlinefs is
in Adoption.
befo
:e
:
This
is
apart
of
the
myflery
of the
Gofpel
,
formerly
God
had
children
in
non
-age, under tutee-age,
all
the
Saints,
the moll eminent
of
them
were
as
children
in
their
non
-age,
and came not
to
their
inheritance but we
are
as
children
in
comparifon of them
that
are of
years
,
that
is made
out
clearly to
us, in
the
4.
Gal, Now
I
fa
y,
that
the heir
as
long as
he
is
a
child,
di
f
féreth
nothinitf
from
a
fervarst
though he
be
Lord
of
all
,
but
is
under Tutors and
Governors
,
until
the
time
ap
pointed
of the
Father
, even
fo we,
when
we were
children
were
in
bondage
under
the
elements
of this
world,,
bast
when
the
fall
of
the
time
was èome;
God
fent forth
his Sonmade
or
a
woman;
made under .the.
Lac,.;__.to._.redeem
them
that
were tinder
the
Law
,
that
we
might
receive the
adoption
of
fops
So
that it
f
ems
till `Chrift
Caine,
there
was
no
recei
'ing
the
.Adoptions
of
fous;
why
were
not
the
Saints
children
before
Chrifl came,
Truely
in
regard
of
Gods
.
ufage
of-them,
they were not
as
children, they
were
not font,
t
hat is,
they were not
foes,
of Age to come
to
injoy
their
inhe-
ritance, but
they were
Eons,
(as
Kings foes
when they
are
little
children
have
their Tutcrs
and
Governors that
ufe
them
as
o-
ther
children
of
meaner men
,
fo
were they ufed)
and
God
revealed
little
to them
of
the
excellency of
their
inheritance
then
-;
But
as
noble men and
Princes,
they
are
fain
to
leale
their
children with,Plttms,
and
Rattles,
and
Baubles,
as
men
pleafe
theirs;
they
cannot
tell them of
their
inheritance
and
poffef
ion
that
they thai!
have while
they
are
little
chil-
dren
;
but
when
a
child
comes
of
age
then
he comes
toun-
derfland
his
dignity;his poffellion,and
it's
that that pleafes him
then,
and
not thole
baubles
that
he had
before
and
the truth
is,
in comparifon
of the
Ordinances
of the
Gofpel
, and
the
priviledges
of
,
the Gofpel
,
what the
people
had
under the
Law
were but
as
Rattles
,
and
Plums,
and Baubles tharwe
pleafe
children
withal;
and
therefore
the
holy
Gho
t
calls
è
ven thole Ordinances that
then
hey
had, to
be
as
Beggarly
Rudiments;
`
but now
by
Chrifl
we
are
redeemed that
we
!night
receive the Adoption
of'
fens
;
and
come tò
enjoy
a
great pari of
our
inheritance , and
it
is
a
fpecial
part
of- the
iar