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ensample unto us; and the dealings of God with them were but a type of the general administrations of his providence and his grace. There is a spiritual as well as a natural seed of Abraham, consisting of all true believers in Christ Jesus: on their behalf God has made a covenant, ordered in all things and sure; and he will not alter the thing that has gone out of his lips: let us rely on his faithful promise, and rejoice if we have been enabled to set to it our unworthy names. Yet let us not be self-confident; "all are not Israel, that are of Israel." It is not bearing the name of Christians, that will secure to us the possession of the heavenly Canaan; but a vital union of spirit to Christ the head. "Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of us should seem to come short of it."

END OF VOL. I.

London: H. Fisher, Son, & Co. Printers,

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