WCF 12.1 All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for 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 upon them,[3] receive the Spirit of adoption;[4] have access to the throne of grace with boldness;[5] are enabled to cry, Abba, Father;[6] are pitied,[7] protected,[8] provided for,[9] and chastened by Him as by a Father;[10] yet never cast off,[11] but sealed to the day of redemption,[12] and inherit the promises,[13] as heirs of everlasting salvation.[14]
[1] Eph. 1:5; Gal. 4:4,5. [2] Rom. 8:17; John 1:12. [3] Jer. 14:9; 2 Cor. 6:18; Rev. 3:12. [4] Rom. 8:15. [5] Eph. 3:12; Rom. 5:2. [6] Gal. 4:6. [7] Ps. 103:13. [8] Prov. 14:26. [9] Matt. 6:30,32; 1 Pet. 5:7. [10] Heb. 12:6. [11] Lam. 3:31. [12] Eph. 4:30. [13] Heb. 6:12. [14] 1 Pet. 1:3,4; Heb. 1:14.
