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The Puritans have gotten bad press for their supposed lack of teaching on the doctrine of spiritual adoption. In Heirs with Christ, Joel R. Beeke dispels this caricature and shows that the Puritan era did more to advance the idea that every true Christian is God’s adopted child than any other age of church history. This little book lets the Puritans speak for themselves, showing how they...

To analyze more precisely the Puritans’ teachings on adoption, it is advantageous to consider first what they thought adoption is not. We are prone to treat regeneration and adoption as synonymous because the regenerated Christian is someone born from above. Adoption, at first glance, seems to be another way of describing the consequences of that new birth. The Puritans assure us, however, that this is not so. These are two distinct blessings,
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