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3. Betwixt whom is the Covenant to be established? between me and thee, (saith God) and thy seed after thee The two heads of this Covenant are God and Abraham; on Gods part are the whole Trinity of persons, the blessed Angels, and all the Host of Heaven; on Abraham's part are all his seed, and his posterity, yet with this limitation,¹ that all are not Israel, which are of Israel; neither because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children of Abraham; but in Isaac shall thy seed be called; that is, they which are the children of the flesh, are not the Children of God, but the Children of the promise are counted for the seed. No question this Covenant was not to be extended to the Ishmaelites, Idumeans, or Kethureans. Abraham's carnal seed; these quickly departed both out of Abraham's family, and Abraham's faith; No, no, saith God, I will establish my Covenant with Isaac for an everlasting Covenant, and with his seed after him, wi•h Isaac, ²and with his seed (i.) with the spiritual seed of Abraham; now under the seed, 1. all believing Jews, and 2. All Gentiles are comprehended, all may be called the spiritual seed of Abraham that walk in the steps of the faith of Abraham; and indeed thus runs the Promise, in thee shall all the families of the earth he blessed. Gen 12.3. And in thee shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed, Gen 8.18. these families and Nations must needs comprehend the Gentiles; the Apostle is very plain: As it is written, I have made thee a Father of many Nations. —That he might be the father of all them that believe, ³though they be not circumcised. —That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith. Christians I here is our happiness the Covenant was not written for Abraham's sake alone, but for us also, ⁴if we believe in him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. You may think all this while we are only discovering the privileges of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and of the Jews; no, blessed be God, Heaven is no freer to a Jew, than to a Gentile; there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, male nor female, &c. But if ye be Christs,