My husband and I just received a complimentary copy of Dr. Joel Beeke's new "Heirs with Christ - The Puritans on Adoption," and I've been thumbing through it. Looks really, really good!

Chapter 7 is entitled "Pastoral Advice in Promoting Adoption" and runs 15 pages. Speaks candidly to pastors on how they can foster and help believers develop their rudimentary sense of "adoption" into God's family. What a blessing! I love what I've read so far!

I think we'll have to order a few to stock our new church literature "bank" with.

Anyway, if you were wondering whether you should get this book, I would highly recommend it. (Reformation Heritage Books is the publisher...)

Margaret

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Margaret
Free Church of Scotland [Continuing]
Michigan

"He must increase, but I must decrease." - John 3:30

Thanks Margaret. I am very interested in this stuff.

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church
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Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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I have a review copy coming in the mail, and am very interested in what Beeke has to say about this.

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Rev. Lane Keister
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RHB just posted a new Heirs with Christ video:

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Seth L. Huckstead
Student PRTS (Freshman Year)
Member: Sovereign Redeemer Presbyterian Church (OPC), Boise, ID

Dr. Beeke's footnotes in the chapter I mentioned are to Shepard ("The Sincere Convert and the Sound Believer"), Burgess ("Spiritual Refining"), Watson ("A Body of Practical Divinity"), Manton ("Works of Manton") and many more.

This is a book (just 129 pp. including its bibliography; most helpfully, it also includes a Scripture index) that you could put into any Christian's hands, whether it would be those of a new convert or of an elderly saint. We've been blessed to hear Dr. Beeke preach a few times at the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Church and have enjoyed chatting with him afterwards on occasion. We have other books of his, but I really like this one! His "pastor's heart" comes through loud and clear in "Heirs with Christ."

I hope you very much enjoy yours when it comes!

Margaret

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Margaret
Free Church of Scotland [Continuing]
Michigan

"He must increase, but I must decrease." - John 3:30

Very nice!

Heirs With Christ: The Puritans on Adoption -- Joel Beeke

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

Andrew, thanks so much for the reference to the previous discussion of this book -- I've had a long day and didn't feel up to looking for it myself... Thank you!

Margaret

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Margaret
Free Church of Scotland [Continuing]
Michigan

"He must increase, but I must decrease." - John 3:30

You're very welcome, Margaret, and thank you for the feedback on the book. I'm looking forward to this myself very much.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

I received it a couple of days ago. Looking forward to some time when I can read it.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor * Maranatha Baptist Church * Poplar Grove, Illinois USA www.maranatha-sbc.org/
"Mankind is divided into two sorts: such as live according to man, and such as live according to God. These we call the two cities...The Heavenly City outshines Rome. There, instead of victory, is truth" — Augustine of Hippo

Margaret, Ivan or anyone else -- Does Beeke's book make reference at all or quote from Simon Ford's The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption (1655)? Just wondering...

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

Yes, indeed! In the chapter on "Pastorly Advice," as to "Growing in the consciousness of adoption," for one reference at least...

Margaret

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Margaret
Free Church of Scotland [Continuing]
Michigan

"He must increase, but I must decrease." - John 3:30

Thanks for that, Margaret. Now that I have my copy in hand, I see that Beeke listed a number of Puritan treatises specifically on adoption, including Ford's (pp. 11-12), none of which have been reprinted. If publishers are reading this, that list would be a nice place to start.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole