34
Explained, by way of Question and Answer (reprint, Lewes, East Sussex: Berith Publications, 1998), 184-
87; Thomas Vincent, The Shorter Catechism of the Westminster Assembly Explained and Proved from
Scripture (reprint, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1980), 96-97. For additional confessional statements
that address adoption, see Trumper, An Historical Study of the Doctrine of Adopiton in the Calvinistic
Tradition, 5-10.
9
Crabb (London: John Gain, 1682); Ford (London: T. Maxey, for Sa. Gellibrand, 1655); M.G. (London:
Jane Coe, for Henry Overton, 1645); Granger (London: William Iones, 1620); Mather (Boston: Daniel
Henchman, 1727); Petto (London: Livewell Chapman, 1654); Willard (Boston: Samuel Green, to be sold
by Samuel Phillips, 1684).
10
Middelburg: Richard Schilders, 1616.
11
The Complete Works of the Late Rev. Thomas Boston, Ettrick, ed. Samuel M`Millan (reprint, Wheaton,
Ill.: Richard Owen Roberts, 1980, 1:612-53, 2:15-27); Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian's Reasonable
Service, trans. Bartel Elshout, ed. Joel R. Beeke (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 1999),
2:415-38; 3:486-87.
12
This number does not include material that could be included from Puritan commentaries and additional
sermons that treat the main texts on adoption, nor additional commentaries on the Westminster standards.
13
Workes of Perkins, 3:138 (2
nd
pagination).
14
Brakel, Christian's Reasonable Service, 2:419.
15
Marshall also uses Romans 8:23 and the beginning of Galatians 4 to buttress Scripture`s frequent
comprehensive use of adoption (Works of Stephen Marshall, 37-38).
16
Witsius, The Economy of the Covenants, 1:447.
17
Ibid., 447-48.
18
Ibid., 448-54.
19
Burroughs, The Saints' Happiness, 192.
20
Works of Manton, 12:113-14; Complete Works of Charnock, 3:90.
21
Gordon Cooke, The Doctrine of Adoption and the Preaching of Jeremiah Burroughs, 23.
22
George Downame, A Treatise of Ivstification (London: Felix Kyngston for Nicolas Bourne, 1633), 241-
42.
23
Ridgley, Commentary on the Larger Catechism, 136-37.
24
See the section on how adoption is realized experientially.
25
Works of Thomas Brooks, 4:419.
26
Packer, Knowing God, 201.
27
Reformed Confessions Harmonized, ed. Joel R. Beeke and Sinclair B. Ferguson (Grand Rapids: Baker,
1999), 107.
28
See Trumper, An Historical Study of the Doctrine of Adoption in the Calvinistic Tradition, 227-29, for
a detailed study of Westminster`s minutes relative to adoption.
29
Chad Van Dixhoorn, The Sonship Program, for Revival: A Summary and Critique, Westminster
Theological Journal 61 (1999):235-36.
30
Trumper, An Historical Study of the Doctrine of Adoption in the Calvinistic Tradition, 231.
31
Ibid., 232.
32
Ibid., 234-36.
33
Watson, A Body of Practical Divinity, 155.
34
Ibid., 156.
35
Ames, The Marrow of Theology, 165-67.
36
Anthony Burgess, CXLV Expository Sermons Upon the whole 17
th
Chapter of the Gospel According to
John (London: Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656), 641-48.
37
Ferguson, John Owen on the Christian Life, 90-91; cf. Works of Owen, 2:207ff.
38
Works of Marshall, 43-48.
39
Shepard, The Sincere Convert and the Sound Believer, 251. Cf. Burgess, Spiritual Refining, 238-39;
Drake, Puritan Sermons, 5:329-30; Watson, A Body of Practical Divinity, 155.
40
Works of Manton, 12:116.
41
Ibid.
42
Drake, Puritan Sermons, 5:340.
43
Works of Hopkins, 2:569-74.
44
Ford, The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption, 212-16.