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The prime Guests invited to this Feast are the Jews, the select People of God, to whom pertained the Adoption, and the Glory, and the Covenants, ¹and the giving of the Law, and the Service of God, and the Promises: Whose are the Fathers, and of whom concerning the Flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. When other Nations were excluded from the Alliance of God, his Presence and Worship was their Privilege, and for them this Feast was principally intended.

1. 1Rom. 9. 4, 5.

The Servants employed in the Invitation were, first, Moses and the Prophets, inclusively to John the Baptist; all to whom the Oracles of God were committed, and by whom ⟨p. 191⟩¹the eternal Counsels of his Wisdom were declared concerning the ²Messiah. All their Prophecies, as so many Lines, meet in this Centre. ³The other Servants were the Apostles, who were commanded ⁴to preach the Gospel first at Jerusalem ⁵The first order of Servants, and the second, both proposed the same Messiah, as the Object of our Faith and Love; but the Prophets under Shadows and Figures in the Promises, the Apostles clearly in the Truth and Accomplishment. The first invited while the Preparations were making; but the Evangelical Ministers are more earnest and pressing, Come, for all things are now ready. And in comparing these two Periods of Time, there is the most shining and sensible Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion: for the Marks of it are clear in the Prophecies by their exact References to the Accomplishment