Adoption

“God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.”

“There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child.”

“Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins and art born of God, unless thou canst prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy.”

“Beloved, now are we the sons of God," and all the immunities and blessings of a present sonship are ours.”

“By the very contemplation of the mercies of God in Christ, and his inviting them to receive them, the Spirit of God will be wrought in the soul, whereby they may have confidence to come to God as a Father.”

“Now they are the sons of God; but it appeareth not in this world what they shall be; and if they be now such, whilst black, what when in heaven, when Christ is made glorious in them?”

“So in this verse by the love of Christ unto His church is meant the actual declaration of His special favor in accepting them for His children and bestowing many singular blessings upon them.”

“The best and the largest portion is laid up for that child that is most like his father.”

“So all the faithful are peculiarly and eminently the children of God.”

“If you have such a glorious inheritance to come—admire, and thankfully adore the love of God in settling this rich charter upon you!”

“Thirdly, if we consider that relation that the saints have to God, they are the nearest relations that can be expressed — of children to parents .”

“As Christ undertook to God, so God undertakes to Christ again, to justify, adopt and forgive, sanctify and glorify those he gives him.”

“I am sure the apostle never leaves him out; no, not in election and adoption, nor in anything, and not now, when he comes to heaven; whatever he speaks of, Christ comes in.”

“Now I have quitted myself of death, and sin imputed to me as a surety, and I am going to heaven to make an end of all there: ‘I ascend to God, to my God and to your God.’ We have all one common Father, and one common God.”

“Vocula pater dicta in corde [The little word ‘father’ spoken in the heart], says Luther.”

“Come to him boldly therefore, under the name of a father, that he may move his bowels, and surely will hear us.”

“They shall be 'called the children of God', that is, they shall be accounted and admitted for children.”

“Children are owned in the house, are missed if they are out of the way, and have their daily provision constantly made for them.”

“And Christ is ‘not ashamed’ of us, his poor kindred; but being allied to us by his nature, he deigns to call us brethren, and is grieved that we come no oftener to him, with petitions of favour to be put up by him.”

“For the child of God is but once begotten to the Lord, and Paul here calls the Galatians “little children” because even in the time of their fall, the seed of God still remained in their hearts.”

“We were elected to be holy, and predestinated to adoption, according to the good pleasure of his will, c.”

“And I will write upon him the name of my God”, that is, he shall be openly acknowledged as my child, just as the Son bears his Father’s name.”

“And therefore Christ addeth comfort to comfort: ‘Go, tell my brethren, I ascend to my Father, and their Father; to my God, and their God.’ The message itself is Christ’s ascension.”

“You have been seeking the assurance of your salvation, but not in the path that has been most honoring to the Divine commands as a child of God.”

“When the father is father of a child, the father will not cast away the child for breaking out with deformity or lameness.”

“As a father to hear the language of his child, though it be none of the best; so it is sweet music in God's ears to hear the prayers of his children.”

“According to that decree He actually adopts the elect—each at his own time.”

“Believe in Christ, and you are welcomed as God's child—God's heir.”