A34: Adoption is an act of God’s free grace₁, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the Sons of God₂.

1. 1 John 3:1
2. John 1:12; Romans 8:17

For further study see:

1. WSC 36: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
2. WLC 39: Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be man?
3. WLC 74: What is adoption?
4. WCF CHAPTER 12: Of Adoption
5. Dr. Dennis Prutow explains WSC 34 concerning “Adoption”