Lastly, do but consider one more plain place, it is in Galatians 4:6, “Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” He does not say, because they had received the sacrament of baptism, which yet they had done; nor yet, because they did believe, which to no doubt many of them did, but, “because ye are sons.” Now this sonship did not depend on the sacrament, or any ordinance of Christ; no nor yet on their faith and inward grace; but on the eternal decree of God’s free election.
