#34 Question: What is Adoption?
Answer: Adoption is an act of
God’s free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to
all the privileges of, the Sons of God.
Answer: 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 sin, and live unto
righteousness.
#36
Question: What
are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification,
adoption and sanctification?
Answer: The benefits which in
this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and
sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the
Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.
Answer: The souls of believers
are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into
glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves
until the resurrection.
Answer: At the resurrection,
believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledge and acquitted
in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoyment of God
to eternity.
