VI. The justification of believers under the Old Testa-

ment was, in all these respects, one and the same with the justification of believers under the New Testament '.
CHAP. XII. Of Adoption.
LL those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption " : by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the fiberties and privileges of the children of God ** ;
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Make me to hear joy ajid gladnes«, that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Vcr. 9. Hide thy face from my sitis, and blot out all mine iniquities. Ver. 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God ; and renew a right spirit within me. Ver. 11. Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Ver. 1 2. Re- •tore unto me the joy of thy sal- vation : and uphold me with thy free Spirit. Psal. xxiiK 5. I acknow- ledi^d niy sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I rot hid : I »:ijd, I will confess my transgressions unto the l^ord; and thou forgavest the ini- quity of my sin. Matth. xxvi. 75. And Peter remembered the words of Jesus, which suid unto him. Be- fore the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly. 1 Cor. xi. 30. For thii cause many are weak and sick- ly among you, and many sleep. Ver. 3!J. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Luke i. L'O. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and ni>t able to speak, until the day that these things shall be perform- ed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.