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never were in any visible Church state with God, nor in any sense related to Abraham, as a Root, were grafted into the true Olive Jesus Christ, and into the true Gospel-Church, and so Partakers of the Sap and Fatness of the Root, and of the Olive, that is, of the Spiritual Blessings and Privileges of Abraham, and of the Covenant ⟨p. 145⟩of Grace made with him, and of the sweet Blessings and Privileges of the Gospel Church; and this they receive and partake of, as being first grafted by saving Faith in Christ, and so united to his Mystical Body. But since there are a greater Number of the old Natural Branches that are beloved for their Father's sake, that is, for the sake of Abraham, as the Roo• and Father of all the Elect Seed, they shall in due time be grafted in again, and so become a People visibly owned of God, and in Covenant with him, as all the true Seed now are, and formerly were. And if this be considered, what doth this Text do to prove the Natural Seed of Believers, as such, are in the Gospel-Covenant? for if the Natural Seed of Abraham can lay no Claim, not have any right to Gospel-Privileges, but are gone or broken off, what ground is there for us to think that on Natural Off-spring, (as such) should be taken in? The Apostle speaks not of such Bras, or of being holy with an external federal Holiness, but of such a Holiness as was in the Roo•, viz Abraham, who believed in God; and thus all his true spiritual Seed (who are actually Branches and in Goven•, being grafted into Christ by Faith) are holy; and also all the Elect •eed of Abraham, not yet called, are decretively, of in God's sight so, who calls things that are not, as if they were; they are all holy and beloved for their Father Abraham's sake, with whom the Covenant of Grace was for himself, and all his true Spiritual Seed. And 'tis from this Argument the Apostle argues for the calling of the Jews, and the grafting of them in again, who belong to the Election of Grace; they therefore who would make every believing Parent to be the Root to his Natural Off-spring, as Abraham was to his true Spiritual Seed or Off-spring, or a common Head or Root of their Natural Off-spring, as he was to his, know not what they say or affirm; for then there would be so many common Roots and Fathers, like as Abraham was called a Root and Father;