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.
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The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to His revealed will.
Wisdom
Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon Him alone for salvation, as He is offered to us in the gospel.
Wisdom
God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
Truth
Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein He pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
Wisdom
Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to His will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of His mercies.
Wisdom
We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by His Holy Spirit.
Wisdom
Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience.
Life
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.
Success
Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the law of God.
Wisdom
Every sin deserveth God's wrath and curse, both in this life and that which is to come.
Life