The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 12.1

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All those that are justified, God conferred, in and for the sake of his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption,⁠¹⁠ by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God,⁠²⁠ have his name put on them,⁠³⁠ receive the spirit of adoption,⁠⁴⁠ have access to the throne of grace with boldness, are enabled to cry Abba, Father,⁠⁵⁠ are pitied,⁠⁶⁠ protected,⁠⁷⁠ provided for,⁠⁸⁠ and chastened by him as by a Father,⁠⁹⁠ yet never cast off,⁠¹⁰⁠ but sealed to the day of redemption,⁠¹¹⁠ and inherit the promises as heirs of everlasting salvation.⁠¹²⁠

expand_more [1] Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 4:4–5

expand_more [2] John 1:12; Romans 8:17

expand_more [3] 2 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 3:12

expand_more [4] Romans 8:15

expand_more [5] Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 2:18

expand_more [6] Psalm 103:13

expand_more [7] Proverbs 14:26; 1 Peter 5:7

expand_more [8] Hebrews 12:6

expand_more [9] Isaiah 54:8–9

expand_more [10] Lamentations 3:31

expand_more [11] Ephesians 4:30

expand_more [12] Hebrews 1:14; 6:12

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The following is not a benefit of the grace of adoption:

Receiving God’s name

Being made free from God’s discipline

Being made able to cry Abba, Father

Being made inheritors of eternal salvation

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