,Chap.;. 7 CHAP. III. Queftions, andCafe: o f ConfcienceaboutAdoption. Qpe(}, Ow many forts ofFons are there ? Anfw. Foure ; a. There is a fonbyeternal generati- ' CJ's on : and fo Chrtt} is the SonofGod. ,, vra 2. By Creation ; and fo Adam, andthe Angels are Sil 7% the foes ofGod. 3. Bynatural generation ; and foCain was the fon of Adam. 4. By Adoption : and foMofes was the fon of 'Pharaohs daughter.' And thus God takes us out of the family of Hell to be his adopted fons. Quefi. How manifold is Adoption? Anfw. Twofold : i. External, whereby the Lord takes a peoplebyoutward Covenant and Difpenfation tobe his fons : and thus the Jewes were Gods firíl borne, Exod. 4.22. and unto them did belong the Adoption, Rom. 9. 4, 5. and hence their children were accounted fons, as well as Saints, and holy, I Cor. 7.14. Ezel . 16: 20, 21. but many fall from this Adoption, as the Jews did. 2. Internal, whereby theLord out of everlafling loveto particular perlons in fpecial, takes them out of the familyof Satan, andby internal love, andfpecial account reckons them inthe number offons : making them indeed fons, as well as calling them fo. lfaac by fpecial Promife wasaccounted for the feed, Rom. 9. Quef+. How manifold is this internal Adoption ? eAnfw. Twofold : a. Adoptionbegun, I John 3. I, 2.. Now arewe thefons of god, to'JvholY( yet the Lord behaves himfelffor force time, and for tomefpe- cial reafons asuntofervants, exerciSng themwith many (cares, Gal. 4. I, z . becaufe force fpirits will notbe the better for the love of their Father, but the worfe, and therefore he is faine to keep an hard hand over them. To others he behaves himfelf with more fpecial refpe&, enabling them with more bold- neffe ro cry AbbaFather, Rom. 8. t 5, i 6. who are more eafily bent to hiswill by love. Adoption perfe &ed, when we (hall receive all the priviledgesof fons, not oneexcepted, Rom. 8.23. where we are faid towait for the Adoption, the Re- demptionof oar bodies. By the fini we are foui, but not feen and known to be fuch, r John 3. r,2. By the fecond, we (hall be known before all the world to be fo. _qua 12. /28% I. lI. I.
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