Adoption – The excellency of the manner in which sinners are translated into spiritual sonship

1. God has regenerated them by his Holy Spirit
2. God has decreed from eternity that in time he would adopt them from the human race to be His children and heirs of eternal life.
3. God has betrothed them to his son … In the Song of Solomon the Lord Jesus therefore frequently calls them his bride: "My sister, my bride" … As the father of the bridegroom also becomes the father of the bride by reason of marriage, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ likewise becomes the father of believers.
4. They have children by reason of being united to the son of God.

Wilhelmus à Brakel (1700 A.D.) p.419

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