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you await heavenly glory, where you will live out your perfect adoption by forever

communing with the Triune God. There you will dwel at the fountain, and swim for ever

in those bankless, and bottomless Oceans of Glory.

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Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism (London: A.

Fullarton, 1845), 160.

Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1973), 207.

Erroll Hulse, Recovering the Doctrine of Adoption, Reformation Today 105 (1988):10.

William Ames, The Marrow of Theology, trans. and ed. John D. Eusden (Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1968),

164-67; Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism (London: A.
Fullarton, 1845), 155-60; Samuel Willard, A Compleat Body of Divinity (reprint, New York: Johnson
Reprint Corporation, 1969), 482-91; Herman Witsius, The Economy of the Covenants (reprint, Kingsburg,
Ca.: den Dulk Christian Foundation, 1990), 1:441-68.

The Workes of that Famovs and VVorthy Minister of Christ in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, Mr. William

Perkins, 3 vols. (London: Iohn Legatt and Cantrell Ligge, 1612-13), 1:82-83, 104-105, 369-70, 430; 2:277-
80; 3:154-55, 205, 138 and 382 of 2

pagination.

William Bates, The Whole Works of the Rev. W. Bates, D.D., ed. W. Farmer (reprint, Harrisonburg, Va.:

Sprinkle, 1990, 4:299-301); Hugh Binning, The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning, M.A. Ed. M. Leishman
(reprint, Ligonier, Penn.: Soli Deo Gloria, 1992), 253-55; Thomas Brooks, The Works of Thomas Brooks
(reprint, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2001), 4:419-20; Anthony Burgess, Spiritual Refining: or A
Treatise of Grace and Assurance (London: A Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1652), 237-43; Stephen
Charnock, The Complete Works of Stephen Charnock (Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1865), 3:90; George
Downame, A Treatise of Ivstification (London: Felix Kyngston for Nicolas Bourne, 1633), 239-42; John
Flavel, The Works of John Flavel (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1997), 6:197-99; Thomas Goodwin,
The Works of Thomas Goodwin (reprint, Eureka, Calif.: Tanski, 1996), 1:83-102; William Gouge, A Gvide
to Goe to God: or, An explanation of the perfect Patterne of Prayer, The Lords Prayer, 2

ed. (London:

G.M. for Edward Brewster, 1636),10-21; Ezekiel Hopkins, The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins, ed. Charles W.
Quick (reprint, Morgan, Penn.: Soli Deo Gloria, 1997), 2:120-21, 569-76; 3:198-99; Edward Leigh, A
Treatise of Divinity (London, 1646), 510-11; John Owen, The Works of John Owen, ed. William H. Goold
(reprint, London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1966), 2:207-22; 4:265-70; 23:255-76.

Jeremiah Burroughs, The Saints` Happiness, Delivered in Divers Lectures on the Beatitudes (reprint,

Beaver Falls, Penn.: Soli Deo Gloria, 1988), 193-202; Thomas Cole, A Discourse of Christian Religion, in
Sundry Points... Christ the Foundation of our Adoption, from Gal. 4. 5 (London: for Will. Marshall, 1698);
Roger Drake, The Believer`s Dignity and Duty Laid Open, in the High Birth wherewith he is Privileged,
and the Honourable Employment to which he is Called, in Puritan Sermons 1659-1689: Being the
Morning Exercises at Cripplegate, St. Giles in the Fields, and in Southwark by Seventy-five Ministers of the
Gospel in or near London (reprint, Wheaton, Ill.: Richard Owen Roberts, 1981), 5:328-44; Thomas
Hooker, The Christians Tvvo Chiefe Lessons (reprint, Ames, Iowa: International Outreach, 2002), 159-73;
Thomas Manton, The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D. (London: James Nisbet, 1870), 1:33-57;
10:116-21; 12:111-39; Stephen Marshall, The Works of Mr Stephen Marshall, The First Part, [section 2:]
The High Priviledge of Beleevers. They are the Sons of God (London: Peter and Edward Cole, 1661);
Richard Sibbes, Works of Richard Sibbes (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2001), 4:129-49; John
Tennent, The Nature of Adoption, in Salvation in Full Color: Twenty Sermons by Great Awakening
Preachers, ed. Richard Owen Roberts (Wheaton, Ill.: International Awakening Press, 1994), 233-50; John
Waite, Of the Creatures Liberation from the Bondage of Corruption, Wherein is Discussed... [section V]:
And lastly is discussed that glorious libertie of the sonnes of God into which the creature is to be reduced
(York: Tho: Broad, 1650).

For example, for the Westminster Confession, see Robert Shaw, The Reformed Faith: An Exposition of

the Westminster Confession of Faith (reprint, Inverness: Christian Focus, 1974), 137-41; for the Larger
Catechism, see Thomas Ridgley, Commentary on the Larger Catechism (reprint, Edmonton: Still Waters
Revival Books, 1993), 2:131-37; and for the Shorter Catechism, see John Brown (of Haddington), An Essay
towards an easy, plain, practical, and extensive Explication of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism (New
York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1849), 162-65; James Fisher, The Assembly's Shorter Catechism