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An Explicatory Catechism

Question 34

On Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) Q. 34

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What is Adoption?

Adoption is an act of Gods free-grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the Priviledges of the Sons of God.

Whose act is Adoption?

God the Fathers act.

What moved him to it?

Only his free-grace.a

What is it for men to Adopt Children?

To take strangers into their Families, and account them their Children, and accordingly to take care of them, as it they were their own.

What is it for God to Adopt Children?

To take them which are strangers, and by nature Children of wrath, into his Family, and to receive them into the number, and give them right unto all the Priviledges of the Sons of God.b

What are those Priviledges which the Adopted Children of God have a right unto?

The Priviledges which the Adopted Children of God have a right unto are, 1. Gods Fatherly protection of them from temporal and spiritual evils. 2. Gods Fatherly provision of all needful things, both for their Soul and Body.c 3. Gods Fatherly correction of them.d 4. Gods Audience and return to their Prayers.e 5. A sure Title to the Inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven.f

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. a1 John 3:1
  2. bEphesians 2:3, 19; 2 Corinthians 6:18; Romans 8:17
  3. cPsalm 34:10; 84:11
  4. dHebrews 12:6
  5. e1 John 5:14–15
  6. fRomans 8:17

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