Adoption is an act of God, whereby he takes sinners, who
were enemies to him and rebels against him—and constitutes them his
children. It is an act of grace—of free and sovereign grace; for there was
nothing in them, done by them, or expected from them, that could form a
reason why this favor should be conferred upon them. It was in the mind of
God from eternity!
—James Smith
—James Smith