The Adoption of Sons (Houston)

Author:

Houston, Thomas

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9781838077532

Publisher:

Ettrick Press

Pages:

212

Binding:

Paperback

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Amazing grace is when God justfies a sinner. but there is something even more amazing - when God adopts that sinner and includes him or her as a 'son' in his family.

Thomas Houston (1803-1882) takes us through the key doctrinal, practical and experimental aspects of the precious subject of God's adoption of sons.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Rev. I. Macleod

Biographical Sketch of Thomas Houston by Rev. S. Steele

1. The family of God

2. The origin and nature of sonship

3. The believer's relation to God the Father

4. The believer's relation to Christ

5. The believer's relation to the Holy Spirit

6. Fellowship in the adopted family

7. The spirit of the adopted family

8. The work of the children of God on earth

9. The privileges of sonship

10. The government and discipline of the family

11. Lack of evidence of our sonship

12. The future manifestation of the sons of God

13. The Father's house

14. Practical uses of the adoption of sons

Appendices

Appendix 1 - The Fatherhood of God

Appendix 2 - Manton on the witness of the Spirit

Appendix 3 - Luther on the witness of the Spirit

Appendix 4 - Behold, the Bridgegroom cometh!

Endorsements

"theologically profound and warmly devotional." - Prof. Edward Donnelly

"In my opinion, Thomas Houston's The Adoption of Sons is superior to all of these [contemporary] volumes and has been unduly neglected." - Dr. Joel Beeke