What tieMffe ybofGodlinefJe is in Adoption, what manner of love the Father bath beftowed 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 c,od : -- Arid it's the fruit of election. In the i Ephef: 5. V: Having predeflina- -t :d -tar unto the Adoption of children by lefins Chrift to hrrr. fel fe according to the good pleafure of his' will: - -- bath predel inaaed us, to whar ? unto the adoption of children, that's the special thing that Cod aims at in predeflination :.that's the bleffng, when God was looking upon thelump of the children of men, well,faith he,there are force that I mean to pafle 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 l'le fix then a part to the Adoption of Sons, they-ihall be my children; and I'le be a Father ro them for ever :Now that that I thought to have . fpoken of in this point, flours have been lids the opening of this bleffednefs, in being the child of God. Firfl, What is the miflery of Godlinef in this Point : And then Secondly, What are the great priviledges thofe that are the children'of Clod doe come to envoy by it. Firfl, The great miflery ofCodlinefs that there is in this point : God works very wonderfull in this, in bringing Sons to himfelf. As firfl, We mull underfland it as aniflery of Godlinefs; $ecaufe thole that ware before children of wrath, children of difobedience are now made the children of Cod, there's no childof God, that God hath, but only that only Son Jefus Chrifl, but was a child of wrath before he was a child of God, aelually made : Every man or womanthatisachild of God now, Certainely was a child of wrath before, And for God to mane of children of wrath to be his chil- dren ; This is a miller, reveal'd in the Scrip' ure onely, that we would not have come ro hive known by the light of nature : And it (hews the bl ifednefso man too to be the children of Clod, when :ve w re the children of wrath and of difobedience and enemies to God, Secondly,, 45
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