The Puritans have had bad press for their supposed silence on the doctrine of spiritual adoption. Joel R. Beeke dispels the caricature and shows that the Puritan era did more to advance the truth that every true Christian is God's adopted child than any other period of church history.

This short book largely lets the Puritans speak for themselves, gathering what they wrote on how adoption differs from justification, what it is not, and the comfort it holds for the children of God. The Westminster Assembly's definition gets a chapter of its own. A small book on a doctrine that carries a great deal of pastoral weight.