Sermons preached

2. They were the Children of the Covenant; Ye are the Children of the Covenant, therefore unto you first. God was in Covenant with their Fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and God follows a Covenant-People with more Offers of Grace, than he doth vouchsafe unto others, and bears with Sin after Sin, till he can bear no longer. And when the Branches of the Covenant-Stock run quite wild, then they are cut off, Rom. 11. 20.

2. They were the Children of the Covenant; Ye are the Children of the Covenant, therefore unto you first. God was in Covenant with their Fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob; and God follows a Covenant-People with more Offers of Grace, than he doth vouchsafe unto others, and bears with Sin after Sin, till he can bear no longer. And when the Branches of the Covenant-Stock run quite wild, then they are cut off, Rom. 11. 20.

3. Christ came of them after the Flesh, and was of their Seed, (Rom. 9. 5.) to teach us first to seek the Salvation of our Kindred, and Country-Men, and near Relations; those that are nearer to us, lie next our Work and Service. Therefore to you first.

4. That he might magnify his Grace and Faithfulness, not only in the Matter of the Gospel, but even in the first Offer of it. He doth magnify his Faithfulness herein, for it is said, Christ is the Minister of the Circumcision to confirm the Truth to their Fathers,