1689 LBCF ch. 12: Of Adoption
Source: 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith (Chapter 12) · creed
God vouchsafes to make all those that are justified partakers of the grace of adoption — by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges, of children of God.
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: Rufinus of Aquileia, Commentary on the Apostles' Creed (c. AD 404)
- manuscript_tradition: Pirminius, De singulis libris canonicis scarapsus (c. AD 750) — earliest received form
- translation: Latin (Symbolum Apostolicum) — Western Church
- citation_tradition: Cited by every major catechism since 8th century
- republication: CCEL — Creeds of Christendom (Schaff)
Connections
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