Adoption is the taking of persons that are strangers and undeserving in themselves into a state and relation of sons and heirs, bringing them into a new family and condition.  And such is the adoption of the sons of God: [it] is a translation of called and sanctified souls out of the family of Satan into the family of God (Col. 1:13).

— Bartholomew Ashwood (1622–1680)

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