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Queft. 18. How is it intimated to the angels in heaven?

Anfw. It is probable, that it is intimated to them by immediate revelation, Luke xv. 10. There is joy in the prefence of the angels of God, over one finner that repenteth.

Queft. 19. How is it intimated to the adopted themselves?

Anfw. By the Spirit itself bearing witness with their Spirit, that they are the children of God, Rom. viii. 16.

Queft. 20. Is there any intimation hereof made unto Satan ?

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Anfw. No but he cannot mifs to know, when he is fpoiled of his goods, and the lawful captive delivered, Mark ix. 26.

Queft. 21. When finners of mankind are adopted, and inrolled into the family of heaven, is their NAME changed?

Antw Yes: as the wife's name is funk into her hufband's, fo the former name of the adopted is funk into Chrift's new name, Rev. iii. 12.----I will write upon him MY NEW

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Quelt. 22. What was the FORMER, and what is the PRESENT name of the adopted children of God? Anfw. Their former name was, firangers and foreigners; their prefent name is, fellow-citizens with the faints, and of the houshold of God, Eph. ii, 19.: their former name was, guilty and condemned; their prefent name is, the Lord our righteousness, Jer. xxiii. 16: their former name was, that they were without Chrift, having no hope, and without God in the world, Eph. ii. 12; their prefent name is, JEHOVAH-SHAMMA, the Lord is there, Ezek. xlviii. 35. Queft. 23. Why is Chrift's name put upon them called his NEW-NAME?

Anfw. Because it is a name that shall never wax old, or vanish away, Heb. viii. 13.

Quest. 24.

Queft. 24. Whence come they by this new name? Anfw. When Chrift gives them the white fione of pardon, he, at the fame time, gives them, in that tone, the new name of being the fons of God, which name no man knoweth, faving he that receiveth it, Rev. ii. 17.

Queft. 25. What are the privileges which the fons of God are invested with?

Anfw. Among others, they are invested with great dignity, glorious liberty, a title to the whole inheritance, boldness of accefs to God as a Father, and his fatherly chaflifement, or correction. Queft. 26. What is the great dignity, or honour, to which they are advanced?

Anfw. To the dignity of being kings and priests unto God, Rev. i 6. or a royal priesthood, 1 Pet. ii. 9.; to feast on Chrift their passover, jacrificed for them, I Cor. v. 7.

Quest. 27. Wherein confifts the glorious liberty of the children of God, mentioned, Rom. viii. 21?

Anfw. Not only in a freedom from the guilt and dominion of fin, the curfe of the law, the tyranny of Satan, and fting of death; but in a filial and reverential obedience, flowing from a principle of faith and love inlaid in the foul, John viii. 36. Gal. v. 6.

Quest. 28. Whereupon is their title to the inhe ritance founded?

Anfw Upon their being Chrift's,------and heirs according to the promife, Gal. iii. 29.

Queft. 29. What is the inheritance which the adopted children of God are heirs of according to the promise ?

Anfw. They are HEIRS of the righteousness which is by faith, Heb. xi. 7.; heirs of the grace of life, 1 Pet. iii. 7.; heirs of falvation, Heb. i. 14.; and, which comprehends all, they are heirs of GOD, and joint heirs with CHRIST, Rom. viii. 17. Quest. 30.

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Queft. 30. What doth their boldness of accefs to God, as their Father, include in it?

Anfw. A firm perfuafion of the power, love, and faithfulness of a promifing God; and an assured expectation of fuccefs at his hand, Rom. iv. 20, 21. 1 John v. 14.

Queft. 31. What are the grounds of this boldnefs?

Anfw. The righteousness of Chrift apprehended by faith, and his prevalent interceffion within the vail, Pfal. lxxxiv. 9. 1 John ii. 1.

Queft. 32. Whence is it that God chaftifes his adopted children?

Anfw. Because he lover them, Heb. xii. 6. Whom the Lord loveth, he chaftneth.

Queft. 33. Wherewith doth he chafife them? Anf. Sometimes with the rod of outward afflic tion, of various kinds; and fometimes with the rod of defertion, Pfal. xxxiv. 19. and xxx. 7.

Queft. 34. For what end doth he thus chaftife them?

Anfw. For their proft, that they may be partakers of his holiness, Heb. xii. 10.

Queft. 35. How ought the children to behave, under the cheftifement of their Father?

Anfw. They ought neither to defpife the chaftening of the Lord, nor faint when they are rebuked of him, Heb. xii. 5.

Queft. 36. What are the marks, or evidences, of the adopted children of God?

Anfw. They will refemble their Father; they know their Father's voice; affect their Father's company; are deeply concerned for his abfence ; and out of love to him that begat, they have great love to all them that are begotten of him, 1 John iii. 2. John x. 4. Rom. viii. 15. Job xxiii. 3. 4 John v. 1.

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35. QUEST.

35. QUEST. What is fanctification? ANSW. Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man, after the image of God, and are enabled, more and more, to die unto fin, and live unto righteoufnefs.

Quest. 1. What is it for one to be SANCTIFIED? Anfw. It is to be made a faint or a holy perfon, fet apart for a holy use, Theff. v. 23.

Queft. 2. Can any finner fanctify himself? Anfw. No: we can defile, but cannot purify our felves, Job xiv. 4.

Quett 3. Whofe work is it to fanctify?

Anfw. It is the special work of the Spirit of God, 2 Theff. ii. 13.

Queft. 4. Doth any finner deserve that God should fanctify him?

Anfw. No for all the children of men are, by nature, wholly polluted, Pfal, xiv. 3.

Queft. 5. What moves God to fanctify any finner ? Anfw. His own free grace and good pleasure, Phil. ii. 13.

Queft, 6. Are not justification, adoption, and sanêtification linked infeparably together?

Anfw. Yes they that are juftified, are adopted: and they that are justified and adopted, are fanctified and glorified, Rom. viii. 30.

Quest. 7. In what refpects are justification and fanctification infeparably joined and linked together?

Anfw. In the decree of God, Rom viii. 30.; in the promise of God, Pfal. cx. 3; in the end of Christ's death, Tit ii. 14.; in the offices of Chrift, 1 Cor. i. 30.; in the gospel offer, 2 Tim. i. 9. 1 Theff.iv. 7.; and in the experience of all believers, Phil. iii, 8, 12,

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Queft. 8. Though they be infeparably linked together, are they not carefully to be distinguished?

Anfw. Yes: fot the confounding of juftification and fanctification, lays the foundation of many errors, both in principle and practice and the want of a clear up-taking of the difference between thefe two, contributes to encumber the believer in his exercise, and to make him go with a boweddown back; whereas the diftinct knowledge hereof, would free him from that bondage, John viii. 32. Queft. 9. Wherein then do juftification and fanctification DIFFER?

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Anfw. They DIFFER in many respects: particularly, in their matter, kind, form, properties, fubjects, order, extent, ingredients, evidence in their relation to the law; their relation to Chrif's offices ; and their use to believers.

Quest. 10. Wherein do they differ in their MATTER?

Anfw. The matter of juftification is the RIGHTEOUSNESS Of Chrift; but the matter of sanctification is the FULNESS of Chrift communicated, or grace imparted from him; out of whofe fulness we receive, and grace for grace, John i. 16.

Queft. 11. How do they differ as to their KIND? Anfw. Juftification makes a RELATIVE, sanctification a REAL change; the first changes a man's fate, the other changes his heart and life, Ezek. xxxvi. 26.

Queft. 12. How do they differ as to their FORM, or manner of conveyance ?

Anfw. Juftification is brought about by the IMPUTATION of Chrift's righteoufnefs to us; fanctification, by the IMPLANTATION of his grace

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