Romans 8:29

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• #BC37 What is adoption? 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.
• #GC47 You mean to say, then, that this honour is proper to Him alone, and belongs to Him by nature, but is communicated to us through a gracious gift, in that we are His numbers? That is so. Hence in regard to this communication He is called elsewhere "the First-born among many brethren" (Rom 8:29; Col 1:15).
• #HC54 What do you believe concerning the holy catholic Christian church? I believe that the Son of God, out of the whole human race, from the beginning of the world to its end, gathers, defends, and preserves for Himself, by His Spirit and Word, in the unity of the true fa...