. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. - has been presented inits fitness to ilhistrate and tosupport the essential principlesof natural religion. It is evenmore conspicuously designed to sym-bolize the doctrines of grace. Theconsideration of this will, therefore, be morearticulate and full, as it will not fail to bring agreater refreshment to the heart of the It is needless to suggest that adoption isone of the most comprehensive terms of theevangelical system. It wraps within itself thewhole of a sinners salvation, just as an organ-ized plant is im^D
. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. - has been presented inits fitness to ilhistrate and tosupport the essential principlesof natural religion. It is evenmore conspicuously designed to sym-bolize the doctrines of grace. Theconsideration of this will, therefore, be morearticulate and full, as it will not fail to bring agreater refreshment to the heart of the It is needless to suggest that adoption isone of the most comprehensive terms of theevangelical system. It wraps within itself thewhole of a sinners salvation, just as an organ-ized plant is im^Dlicitly contained in the seed 231. 232 THE FAMILY. from which it is developed. It includes thepardon of sin and the acceptance of our per-sons before God, which are the constituentsof justification. It includes the new birth,through the quickening power of the HolyGhost, which is the doctrine of mcludes the believers growth in holiness,until he attains the measure of the stature ofthe fulness of Christ, which is finally, it involves the saints translation toheaven, to take possession of the childs inherit-ance, which is glorification. All, therefore, thatthe word salvation implies—in deliverance fromthe guilty the stain, the dominion, and the be-ing of sin—is potentially included in the ideaof ADOPTION; and is in every particular wroughtout when that idea comes to be realized in itsfinal results. Whoever undertakes the full ex-position of the word, finds himself carriedaround the entire circle of revealed religion ;and touches, as he swings, the doctrines ofsovereign election by t
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