The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D., vol. 1 (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1870), A Practical Exposition of the Lord's Prayer, on "Our Father which art in Heaven"

Christ was fain to come down, and to take a mother upon earth, that we might have a Father in heaven.

Adoption is an act of free grace, by which we that were aliens and strangers, servants to sin and Satan, are, in and by Christ, made sons and daughters of God, and accordingly are so reckoned and treated with, to all int…