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THE COVENANT.

A SERMON.

Rev. CHARLES BOYS, B.A.

LONDON:
WEETHEIM AND MACINTOSH,
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CAMBRIDGE : J. HALL AND SON.

1855.
Price Sixpence.

The subject of the following Sermon is pecu
liarly connected in Holy Scripture, with all that
is esteemed dear, and sacred, and precious.

SEKMON.

Jeremiah xxxiii. 14.

" Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform that good
*• thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house
"of Judah."

There is no prophecy of Scripture which does
not more or less, directly or indirectly, concern the
Jewish nation. In a previous chapter, in the 23rd
chapter of this prophecy, and 6th verse, we find these
words : — " In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel
"shall dwell safely: and this is His name whereby He
"shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness," but in
the chapter from which the text is taken, the Prophet
dwells on the promises in store for Israel and Judah,
and after declaring some of them, he at length points
to the time of the end, when the most blessed promise,
full of glory, and that acknowledged, shall receive its
performance, " In those days, and at that time, will I
" cause the Branch of Righteousness to grow up unto
"Davids and He shall execute judgment and righteous-
"ness in the land. In those days shall Judah be saved,
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" and Jerusalem shall dwell safely : and this is the name
-" wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our Righteous
ness." The Prophet Jeremiah has been called the " weeping
" Prophet," because he was both a mournful spectator
and reprover of the sins of his countrymen, and like our
blessed Lord, a man of sorrows. His object was to ex
hort Judah and Jerusalem to repentance, and thus pre
vent the threatened judgments on his country ; of this
his prophecy is full ; to her he was a Prophet sent by
God. In Judah's troubles he could sympathise, in her
sorrows he could see a picture of the tribulation that
should happen to the Church in the last days ; of her
enemies that oppressed her, he could tell how it would
lead to the destruction of those by whom she was op
pressed — the affliction and ruin of those by whom she
was afflicted. He could see, too, how the welfare of
other nations was concerned in hers. He could realise
the presence of God in her ; in her laws he could read
the laws of Heaven and Earth, and trace the mind and
wisdom that ordains and orders all. In her types he
could point to the substance they shadowed forth, and
of the people and nations around, he could tell how their
vanities, and darkness, and abject condition, arose from
their ignorance of Israel's God ; that in proportion as
individuals and nations sought Him, and His righteous
ness, so was their blessedness, " Blessed is the man
" that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is."
Chap. xvii. 7. And in the call of the Gentiles of which
the Prophet speaks, chap. xvi. 19, he would reflect it
was Israel's God by whom they were invited — Israel's

blessings they were to share — beneath Israel's shadow
they were to rest — with her substance they were to be
enriched. (As another Prophet speaks, " And the Gen-
" tiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness
"of thy rising," — Isaiah lx. 3.) And in the statutes and
ordinances committed to Israel, and made known to
them, he could see the fulfilment of the promise God
made to Abraham, " In thee shall all nations of the
"earth be blessed." And the Prophet would delight
himself in Israel, — he could reflect, too, that in all ages
of her history, and his own — to him the worst — she was
still God's Israel, and destined for the accomplishment
of great and mighty purposes, — as the Apostle St. Paul
declares " that the blessing of Abraham might come on
"the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive
"the promise of the Spirit through faith." Gal. iii. 14>
In all this, the Prophet can declare how the records of
her past history, the events of the present, the anticipa
tions of the future, are all wound up in the extension
and completion of the Redeemer's kingdom — and as it
once should be, " In those days, and at that time, will
" I cause the Branch of Righteousness to grow up unto
" David ; and He shall execute judgment and justice in
" the land." So, too, " In those days shall Judah be
"saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely : and this is the
"name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our
" Righteousness." But passing by for the moment that which Jeremiah,
or Isaiah, or Ezekiel, or Daniel, dwell upon — by means
of which they themselves, and many thousands, became
wise unto salvation — what is the case with ourselves ?

Do we view it thus ? "We profess a great regard for ouT
Scripturesj we admire their precepts and love their doc-
. trines, we confess the atonement therein set forth, we
" believe in the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the
"body, and everlasting life after death." We acknowledge
the power there is in the Word of God, and the blessing
that follows a faithful discharge of its holy precepts ;
we are thankful for what it has done for ourselves as a
people and nation; we are willing to promote every
cause which has for its object the extension and propa
gation of its truth ; we bid God speed to every Society
— missionary or otherwise — for this purpose, whether at
home or abroad. But whilst we allow that our prosperity
as a nation is owing to our Christianity, we are apt to
forget whose debtors we are, — that unless the law had
gone forth from Jacob, and statutes and ordinances from
Israel — neither our present blessings, nor efforts made by
us for our brethren, might have been found at all. Con
cerning Israel at the present time, we see a despised and
scattered remnant, and if thought we give them, it is
only one perhaps, that the covenant God hath made is
broken, and forgotten for ever. We too often forget
the word of the Lord by His Prophet, "But thou, Israel,
"art My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of
"Abraham My friend. Thou whom I have taken from
" the ends of the Earth, and called thee from the chief
" men thereof, and said unto thee, thou art My servant \
"I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away." — Is. xli.
8,9. And dear brethren, seeing that every precious truth
and gracious mercy we receive for- our salvation comes

through them to ourselves, — without now dwelling upon
the excellency or preciousness of the covenant, upon the
peace, and mercy, and truth, that by it was to be deve
loped and made known, — which every text shews, and
every prayer answered, confirms, — let us in dependence
on God the Holy Spirit's teaching, consider —
First : the perpetuity or fixity of the covenant God
made and confirmed with His people : and
Secondly, concerning its fulfilment.
" May the God of all grace, who hath called us unto
" His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, perfect, stablish,
" strengthen, settle us."
First then, we find God made promise to Abram,
saying, " In thee shall all the families of the earth be
" blessed." — Gen xii. 3. This same He confirmed with
Abraham — chap. xxii. 18 ; again with Isaac — chap.
xxvi. 4 ; and with Jacob — chap, xxviii. 14. Genera
tions after, God appeared to Moses in the wilderness of
Mount Sinai, and there — three times successively —
reveals Himself to him, as the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. On one of them
He speaks thus — " Thus shalt thou say unto the child-
" ren of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of
"Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
"sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my
" memorial unto all generations." Ex.iii. 15. No wonder
then, that more or less, upon every occasion, Moses
should remind them as in Deut. vii. 9: — " Know there
fore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful
" God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them
" that love Him and keep His commandments to a thou-

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" sand generations ; and repayeth them that hate Him to
" their face, to destroy them : He will not be slack to him
"that hateth Him, He will repay him to his face."
Ages after this, God confirmed and established His
covenant with David — 2 Sam. vii. 16., Ps. lxxxix. 28, 29.
Years afterwards, God speaks by Isaiah, saying, " This
" people have I formed for Myself; they shall shew forth
" My praise. But thou hast not called upon Me,"
— chap, xliii. 21. 22. Again, by Jeremiah, at the
close of the chapter from which the text is taken —
" Thus saith the Lord ; If My covenant be not with day
" and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of
" Heaven and Earth ; then will least away the seed of
" Jacob, and David My servant, so that I will not take
" any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham;
" Isaac,and Jacob : for I will cause their captivity to return,
" and have mercy on them." After the nation had broken
the covenant, the command went forth that the Gospel
was to be preached, and that, beginning at Jerusalem.
And whether at Jerusalem, or elsewhere, the Apostles
in their journeys, first appeal to the Jews ; St. Peter
specially appeals to them. St. Paul writes to the
Romans — "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to
" God for Israel is, that they might be saved." Rom.
x. 1. And this in respect to what follows.
I might even enter more at length into the history
of God's people, and multiply instances of His faithful
ness in His dealings with them: but what do these
things prove ? they prove the eternal stability of His
own word, and Who, as one, himself " a Hebrew of
" the Hebrews," tells us " because He could sware by no

" greater, He sware by Himself,". . . ."confirmed it by an
"oath : that by two immutable things,in which it was impos-
"sible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation."
Heb. vi. 13, 18. Hence as far as His part of the cove
nant is concerned, tho' " one day is with the Lord as a
"thousand years, and a thousand years as one day," yet
we are taught " He is the same yesterday, to-day, and
" for ever." These things teach us, moreover, that man's
unbelief is one thing, God's faithfulness quite another.
As Balaam asks "What hath the Lord spoken ?" And
" He took up His parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and
" hear ; hearken unto Me, thou Son of Zippor : God is
" not a man, that He should lie ; neither the son of man,
" that He should repent : hath He said, and shall He not
" do it ? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it
" good ?" Num. xxiii. 18, 19. In other words, " If we
" believe not, yet He abideth faithful : He cannot deny
" Himself." 2 Tim. ii. 13.
We may, too, see something of the perpetuity of the
covenant in connexion with the perpetuity of some
things which were bound up with it.
Concerning the land, God promised to Abram, "And I
" will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land
" wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for
"an everlasting possession ; and I will be their God."
Gen. xvii. 8.
Concerning the Sabbath it is written, " Wherefore
" the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to ob-
" serve the Sabbath throughout their generations, for
" a perpetual covenant. It is a sign betwixt Me and
" the children of Israel for ever." Ex. xxxi. 16, 17.

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Concerningthe people, David speaks — "For Thou hast
" confirmed to Thyself Thy people Israel to be a people
" unto Thee for ever : and Thou, Lord, art become their
" God." 2 Sam. vii. 24. And especially concerning Him
who is called by the Prophet, "Wonderful, Counsellor,
" The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince
" of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace
" there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and
" upon His kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with
"judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
" ever." Is. ix. 7.
Of the Law we read " One jot or one tittle shall in
" no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matt.
v. 18. Of the covenant itself — " He hath commanded
" His covenant for ever ;" and of the salvation developed
by it — " Lift up your eyes unto the heavens, and look
" upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish
" away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a
"garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like
"manner : but My salvation shall be for ever, and My
" righteousness shall not be abolished." Isaiah li. 6.
But, in the second place, concerning the fulfilment of
the covenant. Not only was it His holy law, "the
" lively oracles," statutes, ordinaaces, testimonies, that
God committed to this people, but He took them and
made them the ministers and teachers of it. The Prophets
were Jews. The Priests, and all concerned in its diffu
sion, were of this nation ; their legislature, their eco
nomy, their government, were of Him. Besides His
judgments, the very history of this people He set for
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dwelt among them in the cloud over the mercy-seat, — ¦
hence whatever of wisdom, or mercy, or goodness,
dwelt in God Himself, was reflected here. Besides
what was typical or temporary, there was a unity and a
unity of design in all. God's Holiness was to be learnt
— His truth made known — His salvation to be seen —
and the revelation was to be effected by Himself. He,
Himself, to be sought, inquired for, and found — as the
one object of their worship, the centre of their hopes.
" I will bring the blind by a way they know not," as
the 25th, 103rd, and 51st Psalms more fully shew. But
apart from this, it was their flesh our blessed Lord
Himself took. " He took not on him the nature of
"angels, but He took on Him the seed of Abraham."
His Apostles, too, were of this nation. During the many
ages past, as far as Gentiles were concerned, how dif
ferent was their case. They held no land by tenure and
right of their own, such as Israel's ; they had no tent or
tabernacle after the fashion in the mount ; no passover,
or feast, or holy day, or statutes, or commandments to
observe, such as Israel. As a people they were to wait till
they were called, and then to share in Israel's mercies.
When once the invitation went forth, then "whosoever
"will " — " Ho every one. . . . Incline your ear, and come
" unto Me : hear, and your soul shall live ; and I will make
" an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies
" of David." Is. Iv. 3.
And this brings me to the question, Does the fact
of our now sharing in Israel's mercies imply that God
has cast them off? does either their own present condition
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broken ? " In the language of the Apostle I would ask
" Hath God cast away His people ?" (a question not the
less pointed in the face of judgments,) and in the language
of the Apostle I would answer " God forbid. As con
cerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: Taut
" as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers'
"sakes." Rom. xi. 1, 28.
But what is their present condition ? Brethren, it
forces itself upon us. We may go where we will, we
may associate with but two or three, or we may mix
with thousands of our fellow-men : — we may enter into
the busy marts, into the crowded halls, and behold men of
every sect, and country, and clime, and be alike ignorant,
alike indifferent of their abode, their language, their
country, or their creed : — but wherever we go, whether
we move in our own parish, or pace the streets of our
metropolis, or the streets of any city far or near;
whether we tread the paths of our own land, or tra
verse lands far, far away ; one people there is, we can
not fail to notice, and in their abject condition witness
literal illustration of literal prophecy.
But do we see them, in the first place, a scattered
people ? let mercy rejoice against judgment ; the same
prophet who pronounced the one, declares the other.
" Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall
" no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the
" children of Israel out of the land of Egypt ; but,
" The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of
" Israel from the land of the north, and from all
"the lands whither He had driven them : and I will bring
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"fathers." Jer. xvi. 14, 15. Again, " Hear the word
" of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles
" afar off, and say, He that scattereth Israel will gather
" him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For
" the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from
" the hand of him that was stronger than he." Jer. xxxi.
10, 11. Again, " And it shall come to pass, that like
" as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break
" down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict ;
" so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith
" the Lord." v. 28. Hosea iii. 4, 5. The other prophets
to the like effect.
Secondly, we look upon them as a despised and out
cast people. Their wickedness is proverbial among us :
and to this the prophet, as though he himself was living,
bears witness : " Reprobate silver shall men call them,
" because the Lord hath rejected them." Jer. vi. 30.
Again, " Thou hast made us as the offscouring and
"refuse in the midst of the people." Lam. iii. 45. Time
once was when crowds of earnest worshippers, from one
end of the land even to the other, came "from the cities
" of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and
" from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and
" from the mountains, and from the south, bringing
" burnt-offerings and sacrifices, and meat-offerings and
" incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the
" house of the Lord." Time once was, when her
enemies were constrained to declare " How goodly are
" thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! As
" the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the
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it now, what a contrast ! In the words of Isaiah, " How
" is the faithful city become a harlot ! righteousness
" lodged in it ; but now murderers." But in the very
same chapter we read again, " I will turn My hand
"upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take
" away all thy tin : And I will restore thy judges as at
" the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning : after-
" ward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the
" faithful city." Isaiah i. 25, 26. In Jeremiah's own
words, " She shall be called the Lord our righteousness.''
But thirdly, we find her a nation alone, and still pre
served. Other nations, as ancient as hers, from one
cause or another, from intermarriages or wars, have
long since ceased. Where now are the Canaanites,
Hittites, Hivites, Jebusites, Amalekites ; where now
are the Edomites, Elamites, Moabites ; where now is
Babylon, Nineveh, and other- cities. What now is
Damascus, Tyre, Sidon, Egypt, or Ethiopia, or Assyria.
Modern testimony, as well as ancient prophecy seems
alike to echo, " The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying,
" Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass ; and
" as I have purposed, so shall it stand  This is the
" purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth : and
" this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the
" nations. For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed, and
" who shall disannul it ? and His hand is stretched out,
" and who shall turn it back ?" Isaiah xiv. 24, 26, 27.
Of Israel through three thousand years we have this
declaration, " Lo ! the people shall dwell alone, and
"shall not be reckoned among the nations." But is
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We may enquire why ? and for what? " AU Israel shall
" be saved : as it is written, There shall corae out of Sion
" the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
" Jacob : For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall
" take away their sins."* Rom. xi. 26, 27.
I might ask, of what value is a Saviour to Judah, if
Judah is not saved : — of the longing wish, " peace be
"within thy walls," if Jerusalem does not "dwell
" safely : "-—or of a promise, unless to her it is verified,
" The Lord our Righteousness."
Considering then these things, we dare not limit
God's power to restore them again, nor His mercy to
make them His believing people, any more than in
our own case. In the language of the Apostle, Rom. xi. 2,
" God hath not cast away His people which He fore-
" knew. Wot ye not what the Scripture saith of Elias ?
" how he maketh intercession to God against Israel,
"saying  lam left alone, and they seek my life."
" But what saith the answer of God unto him ? I have
"reserved to Myself seven thousand." And judging from
the accounts that reach us (passing by the hidden things)
it would appear there are as many still. If I am not
mistaken, as many as fifty converted Israelites are
clergymen of the Church of England. " Even so at
" this present time also there is a remnant according to
" the election of grace."
* " The principal conversion of Jews, in the times of the Apostles,
had taken place before this Epistle was written ; and it is evident that
the conversion predicted is yet future." — Scoffs Commentary on Rom. xi.
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But of the nation at large what does the fact of
their dispersion on the one hand, or their confirmed
wickedness on the other testify, but that the Lord
hath hid His face from them; yet, "for a small moment
" have I forsaken thee ; but with great mercies will
"I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid My face from
" thee for a moment ; but with everlasting kindness
"will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy
" Redeemer  For the mountains shall depart,
" and the hills be removed ; but my kindness shall," etc.
Isaiah liv. 8, 9. At present men despise her, but " In
"those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall
"dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she
" shall be called, The Lord our righteousness."
But we turn from the people to their land.* Con
cerning the land there are just three prophecies
specially verified. 1. bylsaiah xxiv. 6. " The earth also
" is defiled under the inhabitants thereof. . , . Therefore
" hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell
" therein are desolate." 2. Amos v. 3. " The city that
" went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and
" that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to
"the house of Israel.... yet in it shall be a tenth."
3. Ezekiel vii. 21. " And I will give it into the hands
" of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth
" for a spoil ; and they shall pollute it."
History, as well as more modern testimony, only
confirms these predictions. "But though the Lord
* Compare the land promised, conditional on their obedience, with that
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" hath done that which He hath devised, though He
" cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to
"the multitude of His mercies." " Thou shalt no more
" be termed Forsaken ; neither shall thy land any more be
" termed Desolate : but thou shalt be called Hephzibah,
" and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee;
" and thy land shall be married." Isaiah lxii. 4. " The
"desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose."
Passing by the Apostle's argument, " If the fall of
" them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing
" of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their
"fulness;" or the numerous prophecies that support
it. — See Ezekiel xxxvi.
From Ezekiel's vision of the dry bones in the valley,
recorded in his 37th chapter, where we have first "bone
to his bone," and then life infused, the return of Israel
would seem to precede their conversion. But breth
ren, how these things shall come to pass, more minutely
to consider the events of God's providence, the manner
and order of their fulfilment, let us forbear to treat.
But because " In Thee shall all nations of the earth be
" blessed," let us pray the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, alike for Jew and Gentile, " Think upon the cov-
" enant, for the dark places of the earth are full of. the
" habitations of cruelty." Out of 800 millions, on our
earth, 600 millions are living in avowed hostility to the
God of their life, their breath, their being. Let us
pray, " Thy kingdom come ;" especially for Jerusalem.
" Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence;
" and give Him no rest, till He establish, and till He
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" Return, for Thy servant's sake, the tribes of Thine
" inheritance." " If they are enemies for your sakes "
then "Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you."
" For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet
" have now obtained mercy, through their unbelief : even
" so have these also now not believed, that through
" your mercy they also may obtain mercy :" " blessed is
" he that blesseth thee :" Let us too by " our lives "
declare, "Thy will be done in earth as it is in
** heaven." But, whilst into speculations that cannot
profit, we forbear to enter, to the more sure word of
prophecy St. Peter points, "We, have also a more sure
" word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye take
" heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place."
2 Peter i. 19.
Continuing then its one grand theme, The Redeemer
and " His people Israel," it would appear, that like as God
hath chosen and honoured them as vessels of mercy and
instruments in the salvation of mankind, so the time
will come, when He will honour them yet more — it is
especially prophecied of Judah and Jerusalem, by
Isaiah, chapter ii. 1, 2, 3, and of Samaria and Jerusa
lem, by Micah, chapter iv. 1, 2. " And it shall come to
"pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's
" house shall be established in the top of the mountains,
" and shall be exalted above the hills ; and all nations
" shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say
" Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
" to the house of the God of Jacob ; and He will teach
" us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths : for out
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" Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among the
" nations, and shall rebuke many people.". . . . Similarly,
" The nations that will not serve thee shall perish :"
and many other prophecies to the like effect.
Then no longer a zeal for external observances
or circumcision boasted of and prescribed. No longer
is the nation only a keeper of Holy Scripture, but
powerfully proclaiming it. What we cannot now call
her she will then be acknowledged. Such a likeness
to her Redeemer will she bear ; His title will she
acquire, '* She shall be called the Lord our righteous
ness.'* Then Thy salvation will be seen (in each
relatively) " a light to lighten the Gentiles, the glory
" of Thy people Israel."
In conclusion, as regards ourselves, I would ask why
did God select Israel to be a people unto himself? why
to her did He promise and send His Son ? Not only that
to her, but among ourselves also, " peace and happiness;
" truth arid justice, religion and piety might be estab
lished." Or, apart from this, why did Jesus die,
a " ransom for many," an atonement for sin. Not that
Israel only, but that all men — ourselves among them —
"might be made the righteousness of God in Him ;" "that
" Thy way may be known vpon earth, thy saving health
" among all nations." We are here taught that there
is a forgiveness of sins, and a garment of righteousness
for the vilest of the vile. If there is a covenant to be
fulfilled, it is a covenant " of God in Christ." .
If Israel's joys and sorrows, infirmities and sins, have
their counterpart in the spiritual people of God ; if the trials
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Canaan, "are written for our admonition " on the r$adrtb'
the heavenly, shall not the strength- of the Lord ~$>e for"
our sirerig&h? - As it was (.fere, so is it here; r5*j3hew
"me nefpijjmy, that I may know Thee.". . . .,"{# Thy
" Presence.i£d riot with' us carry us not up hen®®1," in
other words ." Shew me Thy way, O Lord, te&sb me
" Thy path." But not here as it was there. No arm of
Moses lifted up, no might or skill of Joshua,, or of
Judges, to overcome; but such another Saviour, andsuch
salvation as no arm of sinful man could achieve. When
the cross and the agony were all before Him, " HM own
" arm brought salvation to Him, — His righteousness, it
"sustained Him;" henceforth, " O Death where is thy
"sting? O Grave.where is thy victory ?" And this is
the hope to which the spiritual Israel both have.and will
look forward. We with them, and they with us " look
" for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and
" maker is God."
Let us share with them His sanctifying Righteous
ness, and He of God will to us become " Wisdom,
" Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption."
" Now the God of Peace, that brought again from the
" dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
" through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
" Make you perfect in every good work to do His will,
" working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight,
" through Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory for ever and

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