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.
We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.
Faith unites us to Christ, and acquiesces in the redemption purchased by Him as the meritorious cause of our adoption.
ADVERSITY.
God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience.
In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.
How full of briers is this working-day world!
