# “The comforts of adoption” by Samuel Willard

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- Published: 2012-10-19T22:00:24-05:00
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“Be always comforting of your selves with the thoughts of your Adoption: Draw your
comforts at this tap, fetch your consolations from this relation; be therefore often
chewing upon the precious priviledges of it, and make them your rejoicing. Let this
joy out-strip the verdure of every other joy.

Let this joy dispel the mists of every sorrow, and clear up your souls in the midst
of all troubles and difficulties as you await heavenly glory, where you will live
out your perfect adoption by forever communing with the Triune God. There you will
dwell at the fountain, and swim for ever in those bankless, and bottomless Oceans
of Glory.”

— Samuel Willard, _The Child’s Portion: Or the Unseen Glory of the Children of God_(
Boston: Samuel Green, 1684), 54, 66-70. Cited in Joel R Beeke, “The Puritans on 
Adoption,” in [_A Puritan Theology: Doctrine For Life_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1601781660?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2012), 554.

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