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 Isaac Ambrose：论神的儿女的名份 我们与主的关系修复后，主将我们收养为儿子： 【约壹3:1】”你看父赐给我们是何等的慈爱，使我们得称为　神的儿女。“ 主在公义中称我们为义，在我们的和解中称我们为朋友，在我们的收养中称我们为儿子。这种领养要么在今生开始，要么在来世完善，那时我们将获得儿子的所有特权。成圣是在收养之后：我们刚成为儿子，就在成圣中接受了我们天父的形象。 Adoption follows reconciliation, whereby the Lord accounts us sons: "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God." The Lord accounts us just in our justification, friends in our reconciliation, sons in our adoption. Now this adoption is either begun in this life or perfected in the world to come, when we shall receive all the privileges of sons. Sanctification follows adoption: no sooner are we sons, but we receive the image of our heavenly Father in sanctification. 取自：ISAAC AMBROSE "The Practice of Sanctification," in Works, 78

 Isaac Ambrose: 人的能力 仔细观察和衡量，所有的问题都不取决于人的能力， 而是取决于上帝的全能之手。  “这场赛跑不取决于人的敏捷， 这场争战不取决于人的强壮； 粮食不取决于人的聪明， 财富不取决于人的理解。“ 我们所有的能力都在上帝的护理之下， 祂按着自己所喜悦的，将成效注入到人的能力之中。 Observe and weigh well that the issue of all depends not upon the abilities of man, but upon the all-disposing hand of God. "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither yet bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding" All our abilities are under God's providence, who puts an efficacy into man's abilities, even as He pleaseth. 取自：ISAAC AMBROSE "The Practice of Sanctification," in Works, 94