In adoption, which in the New Testament not only as to the thing is such as it was in the Old, but also as to mode, condition and effects because: (a) in the New Testament it is proposed as having been acquired through Christ (Jn. 1:12); (b) it is purely such without the schooling, servitude and fear, and thus not of childhood, but of adult age and of emancipation, conjoined with the highest boldness (parrēsia) and confidence (Rom. 8:15).

Francis Turretin |  Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 12.7.46, ed. James T. Dennison Jr., trans. George Musgrave Giger, vol. 2 (P&R Publishing, 1992–97), 232–33.

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