After
this chosen family had rejected Christ and His proposals, the heralds
of salvation said to them, “Lo we turn unto the Gentiles;”
and the Gentiles received the covenant and were grafted in from whence
the chosen family were broken off; but the Gentiles have not continued
in the goodness of God, but have departed from the faith that was once
delivered to the Saints, and have broken the covenant in which their
fathers were established (see Isaiah 24:5); and have become high-minded,
and have not feared; therefore, but few of them will be gathered with
the chosen family. Have not the pride, high-mindedness, and unbelief
of the Gentiles, provoked the Holy One of Israel to withdraw His Holy
Spirit from them, and send forth His judgments to scourge them for their
wickedness? This is certainly the case.
T. 15 |